{"id":181,"date":"2003-09-22T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2003-09-22T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T14:04:45","slug":"file-sharing-copyright-infringement-is-not-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"File sharing (copyright infringement) is not theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what the music industry likes to say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=11662\">the Supreme Court ruled in 1985<\/a> that copyright infringement &#8220;does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud&#8230; The infringer invades a statutorily defined province guaranteed to the copyright holder alone. But he does not assume physical control over copyright; nor does he wholly deprive its owner of its use.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo, even if file sharing is not protected under fair use (which I believe it should be), it cannot be equated with stealing either. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20030922\/027245.shtml\">Techdirt<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what the music industry likes to say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=11662\">the Supreme Court ruled in 1985<\/a><br \/>\nthat &#8220;(copyright infringement) does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud&#8230; The infringer invades a statutorily defined province guaranteed to the copyright holder alone. But he does not assume physical control over copyright; nor does he wholly deprive its owner of its use.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo, even if file sharing is not protected under fair use (which I believe it should be), it cannot be equated with stealing either. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20030922\/027245.shtml\">Techdirt<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}