[opendtv] Re: News: ANTIPIRACY TECHNOLOGIES
- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:39:33 -0700
Your script/music may (see below) be "property", but it isn't "stealing",
any more than trespass on your real property isn't "stealing".
"Intellectual property" does not have the rights and protections of
physical property. The reason it is called "intellectual property" is
to distinguish it from physical types of property which are covered by
completely different parts of the law.
The most conspicuous difference is that intellectual property isn't
handled by state or local governments at all -- it is covered by the
federal government.
At 01:23 PM 10/5/2004, Peter Fasciano wrote:
>>>>"Copyright infringement" isn't stealing -- it's copyright =
>infringement.
>Stealing requires that you take "goods" -- i.e., physical items.
>
>"To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right
>or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal
>the personal goods of another."
>
>When you take that temp job in Hollywood parking cars or waiting tables =
>while you work on making it big as a writer - you will often state that =
>you, "have a property in development" - as in, "intellectual property". =
>
>Intellectual property is just that - property. And its owners enjoy all =
>the property rights and protections as physical assets. Intellectual =
>property can indeed be stolen.
>
>Your own definition above is entirely applicable to intellectual =
>property. When someone copies without fair payment, that's simple theft =
>in my book.
>
>Pete
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