[QUOTE="worlock77"][QUOTE="Mafiree"] Unique and unmistakable...... Kind of like the conditions that producers/publishers show to obtain a copyright.Mafiree
You might have an argument there.....if they were being deprived of their copyright. They are not.
So, they do not lose their exclusive rights to copy their work when a site like pirate bay hosts their media for others to copy without their consent? I guess you could argue they still own the "copyright", but it is made almost worthless.They've never had absolute exclusive rights to copy their work in the strictly mechanical sense that you're referring to. For example, in buying a CD you have the right to make as many copies of it as you want for your use. You also have the right to sell that CD to someone else (although the RIAA once tried to argue that used CDs were theft) and then they have the right to make as many copies as they want for their use.
And no, the copyright is far from worthless. There can be a lot of monitary value in a work beyond the mere selling of CDs and DVDs.
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