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"1: the act of infringing : violation 2: an encroachment or trespass on a right or privilege" Infringement on someone's property is more like trespassing than
by nextparadigms 15y ago
"1: the act of infringing : violation
2: an encroachment or trespass on a right or privilege"
Infringement on someone's property is more like trespassing than deprivation of a good.
But funnily enough, in this case it may actually be "copyright theft", which in 95% of the cases gets misused when meaning copyright infringement. Copyright theft actually means taking someone's work, and saying it's your work. And this is what NBC seems to have done.
- mhurron 15y agoI guess it was too subtle before. "deprivation of a good" is not a requirement for all definitions of the word 'steal' or theft when talking outside a courtroom. >Infringement on someone's property You mean "2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment." My god that's stealing! >Copyright theft actually means taking someone's work, and saying it's your work Since you're trying so hard to be pedantic, that would be plagiarism (act) and copyright infringement (legally). On the street, that is referred to as theft.