Thread: What are your views on illegal copying?
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Old 02-22-2010, 08:09 AM   #276
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Originally Posted by kazbates View Post
You added "owner of the book". I meant owner of the copyright and I believe you knew that.
Your belief is incorrect, as it certainly read to me like you meant the owner of the book, given the context - the law is pretty clear that acquiring something for your own use without the consent of the copyright holder is perfectly legal after the point of first sale, after all. Regardless, my apologies for misreading your intent.

If we're going to owner of the copyright, authors get kicked to the curb again, as the owner of the copyright would be me. And you, and everybody else (except possibly Kenny), since the whole legal basis of copyright is that the owner (that would be us, society as a whole as represented by our agent the state) grants an individual (the author) a license to exploit something that belongs to us (the written work) for a limited time.

Sorry if this seems nitpicky, but a big part of the problem with copyright discussions is that a lot of terms have been pretty thoroughly Humptied (deliberately, in my opinion, in a cynical - and successful - attempt to muddy the waters).
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