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> No one has the right to steal. To copy. This is copyright, not theft, which is why this is civil law rather than criminal law. Also law... just because som
by buro9 3y ago
> No one has the right to steal.
To copy.
This is copyright, not theft, which is why this is civil law rather than criminal law.
Also law... just because something is law does not make it correct. Things which in hindsight should never have been legal in the most obvious way (slavery, apartheid, etc) were legal in their time. Copyright doesn't feel even as obvious as those things.
- RHSeeger 3y agoAnd to follow it a bit further, (my understanding is that) copyright was created not because the creators have some inherent right to control what they created but, rather, to promote the creation of such works for the betterment of society as a whole. From: U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8 [1] > To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; [1] https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html