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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
That is also true of a bookcase.
I have here a bookcase I bought from IKEA the other day. I own it. If I want to sell it to you, I can do that. If I want to give it to my mother, I can do that, too. If I want to donate it to the church rummage sale, I have that option. None of those pay the creator of my bookcase anything. Should they?
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That refers to first use statutes.
For the reference to this thread, and the quoted text, you can take the bookshelf apart, cut pieces and make a copy of it to sell, give away, or whatever, which essentially makes it the same as sharing or copying digital files. Many physical items can be copied (albeit with physical work), the same the digital files can be copied using digital work. You do the physical work to copy the bookcase, you do the digital work to copy the file...
Either way it is the same thing and tends to carry the same legal consequences, especially if you try to represent the bookcase as an IKEA and not your own work which is the only essential difference of physical versus digital.