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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Based on your example, "taking a photograph" would equate to seeing a book's cover through the open door. I'm talking about taking its contents to read, or walking in the door and taking property out. Not the same thing.
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Why. I tale the image to be able to look at it ("read") later.
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I get that Swedish law sees the taking of an e-book as "taking nothing." What I don't see is how Sweden can equate an intellectual creation protected by copyright law, in electronic or any form, as "nothing." That seems to say that no intellectual property has value in Sweden... other than the paper and ink it's printed on. And I have a hard time believing Sweden believes that.
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The laws in Sweden was changed a couple of years ago so now it is illegal to download copyrighted material. But it is copyright infringent or something similar that is the crime. It is not theft. And it is not theft in the US or UK according to what people have written about the laws in these countries here.
You get a monopol to distribute intellectual property. It is the monopol that has value. Why confuse the monopol with the intellectual item?