Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing

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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