Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:17:45 +0200 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux |
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> [lm@bitmover.com] > > > Instead, to prevent this kind of "legal theft", the only thing a person > > found in possession of "stolen" property needs to do is to return it, > > unless there is evidence that the possessor actually stole the property > > in question. > > Yeah, right. > > ``I "found" these 3GB of mp3's of music and I had no idea that > they were stolen but now that you mention it, here they are back. > Finders keepers, right?'' > > What were you thinking? That's obviously incorrect, I know that it is > incorrect from both observation of recent court cases as well as direct > personal experience.
You're both right. The thing you may be missing is - intellectual property ain't the same as material property and the law has to (and does) take this into account.
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