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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
If someone steals your car while you are on vacation, and when you have recovered it you discover that they have changed the oil and filled the tank, I don't see any moral issue with driving the car with those improvements. If you don't own anything, you don't gain any rights over it (moral or otherwise) by improving it.
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I know I promised myself I'd step out of this thread but that's not a very good example Andrew. Not the same thing at all and I think highlights the confusion around this topic and peoples appreciation of the concepts surrounding. If you want a physical example one would be that you paint a picture (let's say a nice female nude or something), I then go and take a photo of said painting without permission (let’s say using a film camera) which I then develop into photos and give away these copies for free. You contend that I don't have a license/permission but instead of just having me destroy my photo (and me paying for any harm the court deems to have occurred) you then take my work (said photo) and start selling it.
It's probably not perfect, but it's closer to the situation being discussed.