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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Can you provide a source for this? With all due respect, this sounds like something Big Content made up to justify its use of the word. If it's not, then it would be a very interesting historical footnote.
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According to
Wikipedia, the term "piracy" is applied to creative works in the Berne Copyright Convention:
"See Berne Copyright Convention, 1886: "Pirated works may be seized on importation into those countries of the Union where the original work enjoys legal protection." (Art. 12)."
But I would still argue the Big Content applied the term to make the unauthorized use of works appear worse. After all, Berne was the start of Copyright Maximalism.