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| Subject: | Re: Note to Paul A. Owen |  |
| Date: | Apr 27, 2006 |
| From: | Steve Frost | |
--Yes but I think he was "pissed" because they were selling those images and profitting from them...--
Profiteering is not a concern when dealing with copyright. At least in the U.S., if you take someone else's original material, share it with someone else without consent from the originator, without profiting from it, it's *still* a copyright violation. That was the argument used to close down peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa, BitTorrent, etc. The members on those networks weren't charging for others to download songs, movies etc. The U.S. Courts stated time and time again on appeal that sharing still violated the owner's copyright on those works, because it was sharing the work without permission of the owner. A few exceptions are made, mainly for "educational" or "research" purposes, but even that has limits.
It's also why DVDs in the U.S. now have that silly warning from the FBI about piracy. If you read it closely, it plainly states that copying the movie without permission, even without intent to profit, is still "piracy". I find that definition to be craptacularly broad, but that's the greed and paranoia we have now.
I can't speak for Canada or the RoW views on copyright. |
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