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Numbers 2, 3, & 4 are all illegal because they start with an illegal action. If I find a dollar on the sidewalk and put it in my wallets, is that stealing? If
by megaman821 2y ago
Numbers 2, 3, & 4 are all illegal because they start with an illegal action.
If I find a dollar on the sidewalk and put it in my wallets, is that stealing? If I punch a man getting change at a hotdog stand and a dollar falls on the sidewalk and then I put that in my wallet, is that stealing?
It doesn't matter what the scenario is after you stole code from your former employer, all actions are poisoned after.
- skissane 2y agoAlthough the question is - obviously the ex-employee is likely to be found guilty of copyright infringement (civilly or criminally or both). But what is the copyright status of the resulting work? Does its infringing origins condemn it to always be infringing? Or at some point if it is refactored/rewritten enough it ceases to so be? Imagine the ex-employee open sources it, and I’m an innocent third party using that code base, ignorant of its unlawful origins. Am I infringing their ex-employers copyright (even if unintentionally)? For (2), obviously “yes”. But what about (3) or (4)?