• Jazsta@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do you strictly have to deprive others of content to be stealing? Taking away potential revenue, stealing someone’s design, etc. are also forms of stealing. If a gaming company lifts some art someone shared and put it in their game without compensating the artist or getting permission, would that not be stealing? They’re not taking away that content from anyone else - so is that ok?

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure that you do have to intend to permanently deprive for it to be theft. What you’re describing is copyright infringement. Whether that’s morally right is a different question but it’s not stealing.

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        1 year ago

        I have no idea how you came to this conclusion but it is legally incorrect.

        Property theft is taking anything you do not own without consent of the owner. It has nothing to do with if that property deprived the owner of anything.

        • shallowthought@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Is it though?

          Theft in Scots Law is defined as the wrongful appropriation of the property of another, with the intention of permanently depriving the other person of his or her possession.

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