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I don't see what is so grey about it. Regifting property to one other person without retaining it, OK. Regifting property to multiple people or while retaining
by Kylekramer 14y ago
I don't see what is so grey about it. Regifting property to one other person without retaining it, OK. Regifting property to multiple people or while retaining it, not OK. You could argue that regifting is depriving artists, but it is terrible argument because property is generally allowed to be redistributed without the original creator's consent.
- summerdown2 14y agoIf digital files are property, why can't I resell them?
- Kylekramer 14y agoI don't see how my comment says you can't. I just don't think you can resell them to multiple people or resell them while keeping the property.
- summerdown2 14y agoMy intention was to point out a current difficulty with digital files, which is that they are legally stuck half way between property and license. You used the word property as if it was assumed, which struck me as odd, because to me they don't feel like property. My comment was trying to point out that if we really tried to view digital files as property we get into problematic territory. For example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19842851 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19842851 A lot of the language around digital rights issues seems to me to be loaded. The use of theft to refer to copyright or even the words Intellectual Property, begs the question of an argument not yet proven. Eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Intellectual_Property#The_term_.22intellectual_property.22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Intellectual_Prope...