Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing

Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by jumpman500 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:03PM (#20811123)

What about Plagiarism though? That's the main point of intellectual property. If someone writes a song and it's really good. It's about the artist's life, full of personal stuff that only that artist could think of. It's this artist's master piece. But then a more popular artists decides to steal it and makes it becomes more successful. The more popular artist doesn't owe anything to the original creator?

I think IP is definitely abused, but still a lot of cases were it can protect people.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by finnthehuman on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:07PM (#20811174)

That’s not plagiarism. Plagiarism is is passing off someone else’s work as your own.

The bounds or plagiarism have no ties to the legal bounds of what is or isn’t copyright infringement. You can have either one without the other, or both at the same time.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by jumpman500 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:03PM (#20812649)

In my scenario the more popular artist is pretending to be the original creator and stealing their work. But imagine any plagiarism scenario. Someone republishing Harry Potter under their name for instance.

How can you prosecute someone for plagiarism without copyright laws?

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by jai_ on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:32PM (#20815450)

Is this not the same situation if someone were to plagiarise a public domain (i.e. no copyright) work now?

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by teddyh on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:24PM (#20822525)

That’s called “fraud”. It has nothing to do with copyright.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by reacweb on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:07PM (#20811173)

Do not mix copyright with IP. Copyright is useful for artists.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by pitaj on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:17PM (#20811309)

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by pitaj on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:06PM (#20811162)

If somebody makes a better version then good for them.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by jumpman500 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:16PM (#20812791)

Would you feel the same if it was you or your friend who had their life's work stolen? Would you be alright watching someone make a fortune off of your work and not even acknowledge they owe you?

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