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Originally Posted by Shaggy
But copyright infringement and stolen property are two completely different things. In a copyright case, there is no stolen property. The ownership of the item is not what is in question. If a seller photocopies a physical book, copyright law does not say the Publishing company whose rights were infringed owns the photocopies. The law is about whether or not the distributor was authorized by the copyright holder to make/distribute copies, not ownership of the copies themselves. It's closer to being a contract/licensing dispute between the copyright holder and the distributor, not ownership of "stolen" property.
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Yeah, but I was merely making an analogy for purposes of conveying the idea - I was not arguing by analogy.
And my point had nothing to do with copyright law
per se - it had to to with the question of whether the buyer of an unauthorized product has any property rights in the product, which I think it clearly doesn't.