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Originally Posted by Lo Zeno
Oh for xxxx's sake!
Stealing: taking something which you are not allowed to take.
This, at least, is what stealing means at my home.
Now, no law in the world allow you to take for yourself a book unless the AUTHOR and the PUBLISHER say "ok, you can". There are 2 ways to be granted permission to TAKE a book: paying, or obeying to a licence that says "you can have this book if you do not claim authorship" (like some GPL licenses).
Now move on.
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If download a copy of a file of an image of a book, how have I taken anything? And unless I you are an expert in the various legal codes of the world, I would not make such sweeping statements. In traditional interpretations of Islamic law, copyright as it is practiced in the west is for the most part not recognized. The property rights inhere in the physical book and not in the content. For example, if I have purchased a copy of the Davinci Code, according to this interpretation of Islamic law, I have the right to copy it in whole or in part and even to republish it. The main the right that the author possesses is the right to be identified as the as creator of the work. Intellectual Property is not a recognized concept in every law system.
Luqman