> if I ship a robot which can paint a famous painting, but not the painting itself, I would argue the copyright violation happens by the user of the robot when

> if I ship a robot which can paint a famous painting, but not the painting itself, I would argue the copyright violation happens by the user of the robot when it paints the painting, not by the maker of the robot. How is that different than sending someone a jpeg of a copyrighted painting? Or the jpeg and the executable that can render the jpeg. Or the jpeg and the executable and the computer it runs on. Each of those gets closer to what you said.