Twice in the past week I’ve read an article of book that mentions “copyright theft”. You can’t steal a law or a right can you? That would be like saying “privacy theft” wouldn’t it? I think they mean “violating copyright”. Anyone want to help me out here?
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Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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I would argue that you *can* steal a right. After all, you can *buy* and *sell* rights (or give them away). So if someone engages in exercising a right that they don’t legally own, isn’t that theft of the right?
Can you steal free speech? Steal the right to bear arms? You can steal someone’s property, but you don’t steal the law regrading rights of ownership.