[Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

[Fred Bauder]

>>
>> If you post a creative work on a website the purpose which is to share
>> files you have assumed the rights of the owner, one of which is to
>> determine the conditions which must be met to view or listen to the
>> work.
>> The owner can give his work away to the world but not third parties.
>>
>> Fred
>>
> What are you saying has been stolen here? The work itself, the copy of
> it,
> or the copyright in the work?
> There are serious problems in trying to bend the law of theft to any of
> them.

It is easiest to analyze if the work has never been published.
Distributing it then is a taking of intellectual property regardless of
whether the original is physically taken or only a copy. The theft is of
the possible gain lost. Actually, rather like claim jumping. It is not
the ore that is lost but the right to mine it and profit from it.

Fred