Re: Re: "Why It's Wrong To Call Copyright Infringement 'Theft'"

Tangibility isn't the defining feature here.  Non-rivalrousness is.  Personal identity is by its nature a rivalrous good, where if you use mine it makes me responsible for the financial and legal consequences for your actions.  In a more abstract sense, the more people using an identity, the less value that identity has for its intended purpose: identifying a single person.

So I would argue that the similarities here are only superficial.

 
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 From: joseph harris <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Re: "Why It's Wrong To Call Copyright Infringement 'Theft'"
 
Rowena,

That is a great  point. I think one can certainly also say that identity 
is a possession, for it most certainly belongs to an individual, even 
though it is intangible.

Joseph Harris

On 21/04/2012 12:52, romance author wrote:
> And yet, no one quibbles when Identity Theft is called "Theft".
> An identity is also intangible and can be shared thousands of times online.
>
> In many cases, copyright infringers knowingly and deliberately and explicitly (albeit by default) purport to be the authors (Scribd TOS refers to uploaders as "authors") of the works they upload.
>
> Best wishes,
> Rowena Cherry
>
>
> --- In [email protected], joseph harris<smilepoet@...>  wrote:
>    
>> [It seems to be a day for wondering about the legal profession, so let's
>>      

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