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Copyright infringement requires sharing the copy without a license to do so, not making the copy
by vmception 5y ago
Copyright infringement requires sharing the copy without a license to do so, not making the copy
- addaon 5y agoThe right to make copies (reproduce a work) and distribute copies (sharing) are both separately protected by copyright law [1]. [1] https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/scope.html https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/scope.html
- vmception 5y agothanks! people go after uploaders, who both created a copy and distributed the copy, the downloader is receiving yet another copy and by nature of the technology is "reproducing" simply by how filesystems work but it seems like the uploader is the center of attention thoughts on that? It seems that enforcing this against a downloader would require every single piece of media have an explicit limited license for downloading, which isn't practical right now