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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: Shoplifting, concealment, liability presumption |
Date: | Tue, 04 May 2010 16:07:48 -0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 |
Here is a story from Colorado: <http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/22745694/detail.html> A person who borrowed a DVD from a public library and never returned it was arrested on a theft warrant which had been issued by the city. There was obviously no theft when the DVD was first borrowed, so we that something can become a crime over time even without specific action. Similarly, copying and distributing GPL-covered works without honoring the conditions of the license is copyright infringement, regardless of the circumstances under which the copier first obtained the work. (Of course the arrest caused a contretemps and the charges were subsequently dropped, but that's not relevant.)
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