[Foundation-l] Baidupedia copyvio collections

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu Jun 12 16:35:48 UTC 2008


Brian McNeil wrote:
> Copyright infringement is *NOT* theft.
>
> When you infringe someone's copyright you have duplicated what they have,
> not taken it away from them.
>
> For this very reason, the law views the two offences differently. If you
> equate copyright infringement with theft, you've been drinking the RIAA
> kool-aid.
>   
I think that "theft" was an unfortunate choice of words. A different 
word could be used without diminishing the importance of Baidu's 
improprieties.

Ec



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