Well in legal terms you are correct, but I am an old man. I always learned that when someone takes something that doesn't belong to them without permission its stealing. Copyright infringement = stealing in my way of thinking. No the penalties are not the same, but that shouldn't affect the real term and not be afraid to use it. They were deprived of the control that was rightly there's as the creator of that work. They were also deprived of the income that the work would have produced, just as if they had taken a few hundreds out of the persons wallet.
I am old. Politicians call it spin. Lawyers often call it debate. Yet most preachers will call it lying. Legal code doesn't change the basic fact that it is an intentional untruth.
Now anyone that would ban the second hand sale of books draws just as much if not more ire from me as the thief. If it was purchased legally, it is theirs to do with as they wish with that copy. Now if they are using that copy to mass produce others to sell, well see above. Yet trying to stop a library from lending in the hopes of selling an extra book or two is about as short sighted as they come. Most people that appreciate the printed word got their start in libraries and second hand book shops. Stop them and in about 30 years or so they will wonder why everyone stopped reading. It really is a mad mad world.
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Subject: Re: PHOTOFORUM digest 5341
From: karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, February 10, 2010 12:48 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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Mark:
Dan its a common attitude, but its very misguided. When they use your
photos without permission there is only one word (ok maybe a few different
words some of which are 4 letters) that really applies. IT IS STEALING, or
THEFT and no one likes to be ripped off.
no sorry, it's copyright infringement..
Recently we've seen a huge public re-education campaign by huge
organizations to attempt to make it appear to be theft, but it isn't. They
even attempt to key in the word 'deprivation' to create a sense of theft ..
The basis of theft is deprivation, stealing is taking something such that
the person who possessed the item no longer has it.
copyright infringement is another game altogether
Mind you, there was a push to make the trade, lending or sale of second
hand books illegal in one country by certain 'concerned groups'
(publishers) - this would have seen libraries abolished. Of course their
argument was also 'deprivation'
mad world..
k
