flatfish+++ wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:09:32 -0400, mlw wrote:
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>> flatfish+++ wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:09:48 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:02:27 -0500, flatfish+++ wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nitpicking....
>>>>> I steal a car and the owner is laid up in traction for 6 months so he
>>>>> doesn't realize the car is missing and has not reported it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did I steal a car or not?
>>>>
>>>> Copyright infringment is not stealing. I did not say that Roy stole
>>>> the
>>>> image. It's still a federal offense, and just as bad, but stealing is
>>>> depriving another individual of the item. It's like calling larceny
>>>> marder. Just as bad, but different things.
>>>
>>> Poor choice of words on my part.
>>> I am hardly a legal eagle :)
>>> However, my analogy still holds.
>>>
>>> Just because the person doesn't know you are using their property
>>> without permission doesn't mean you didn't do just that.
>>
>> Sigh, do you know anything about copyright? It is complicated, it is
>> nothing like stealing a car. Wikipedia has a good explanation:
>>
>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act
>
> This is not about me.
>
> The person, Roy S, is using a work without permission.
> He is also making money off his website, which contains said work.
>
> Whatever the legal term for it is, he is wrong.
There are many things that one person may believe to be wrong when another
may not. At issue is what is actionable under the law.
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