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Still not a perfect analogy. If the robot spews copyrighted content, the robot, its owner and the content receiver are now in trouble.
by LoSboccacc 9y ago
Still not a perfect analogy. If the robot spews copyrighted content, the robot, its owner and the content receiver are now in trouble.
- simonh 9y agoWhy the content receiver? That would be like a musician suing viewers for listening to their copyrighted music playing in the background of Youtube videos. It's the responsibility of people disseminating content to ensure they have the right to do so. That's why file sharing cases focus on the sharing, not the downloading per se.
- LoSboccacc 9y agoI was under the idea that possession is still punishable, even if it is not given the same severity as infringeme Edit: I mean not the act of listening, but the act of storing unlicensed material