“Copyright infringement, although often regarded as theft, seems to be a rather strange kind of property infringement. If I steal your car, or your cash, or your furniture, I deprive you of the use of those things and stick you (or your insurance company perhaps) with the cost of replacing those items. But if I copy some music, or software, or a book, no one appears to be deprived of anything. David Hartline, the Assistant Director at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property tries to explain away this strangeness by explaining, in a very clear way, the distinction between ‘larceny’, and the broader concept of ‘theft’ …” (more)
[Michael Voytinsky, Blog of the APA, 20 September]
First posted 2021-09-21 08:00:42
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