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Originally Posted by leebase
Not just me saying so: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....ract_id=491466
And the government can do things regular folks can't. The government via imminent domain can take my property and give me whatever the GOVERNMENT thinks it's worth (not the market, not me, the government).
Other than that, nobody can take my copyright away. If they copy my works without my authorization, they have infringed my copyright.
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's a duck.
Copyright explicitly belongs to the holder. It can be sold. It can be inherited. It is not a physical thing and so there are different labels for it's treatment, but they all amount to "property".
If you want to say "I didn't steal your property" and instead think "I infringed on your copyright" -- more power to you. Theft is theft no matter the label |
Yet in the US, it doesn't quite work that way. It is legal to buy a used book. You got no extra money.
Ok. the copyright was transferred. Yet if I disassemble the book, and scan and proof it, for my own use, and the destroy the original, did I violate the copyright? I had one copy in physical format, now I have one copy in virtual format. One copy, either way. Does format shifting count as copyright violation?
Lots of possibilities. . .