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Hey, CEOs can steal too! Neener, neener!

Started by mathewi · 11 months ago

After reading about the stunt that Macmillan Publishers CEO Richard Charkin pulled at a recent conference, where he briefly took two laptops from a Google booth before returning them — followed by a grade-school-style taunt about the search engine getting “a little of its o ... Continue reading »

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  • One minor correction, copyright law can be a criminal offense. See title 17 section five chapter six of the U.S. legal code:

    http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#506

    Most of the time it is treated as a civil matter for many different reasons, but there is a potential for a criminal offense. This is how they arrest piracy and counterfeit DVD rings.

    There are differences between the two, but they aren't as simple as civil vs. criminal I'm afraid...

    Hope this helps!
  • Thanks for pointing that out, Jonathan. I think my central point still holds though -- that physically taking property is legally different than infringing copyright, for a host of very good reasons.

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