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Canadian Anti-Piracy Firm Caught Infringing Copyright
An anonymous reader writes: Canipre, a Montreal-based intellectual property enforcement firm, yesterday issued a press release announcing an infringement monitoring program designed to take advantage of the Canada's new copyright notice-and-notice system. Yet a new report indicates that the company may itself be engaged in copyright infringement, with a director's blog posting dozens of full-text articles from media organizations around the world, often without attribution and some that are subscription-only content."
Hypocrisy on the net, in politics, or in real life is about the most common "scandal" you can find. But its fun click-bait.
It means he couldn't have reasonably thought it was free to distribute. So no excuses.
We just made a simple mistake. You did it on purpose!
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
I'd expect from a company that claims to be the crusader for copyright to understand it. Guess it either means that they themselves don't give a shit about what they claim to protect, they just want to milk it for money. Or even an expert on it can't understand it 'cause the friggin' crap is borked beyond repair.
You decide.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This isn't the first time canipre have been identified as "thieves":
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/2110243/anti-infringement-company-caught-infringing-on-its-website
I believe it's time we throw the book at these commercial pirates. They clearly aren't learning from their mistakes!
Technically, it's not theft if he wrote all those articles himself.
Close, but not correct: "it's not 'theft' if he owned the copyright on those articles, or has a license to distribute them".
Having written something yourself doesn't mean you own the copyright on it: e.g. if a journalist writes an article for the newspaper he works for, the copyright usually goes to the newspaper. Another situation where you may not distribute your own stuff, is if you write something, and then license it on exclusive basis to someone. Though in this case it may actually be breach of contract rather than breach of copyright.
In both cases, however, the author should be very well aware of what he may or may not do with his own work.
Understanding and respecting the spit are two very different things. If you look at the various studios that are pushing hardline copyright enforcement, they generally have massive internal problems with copyright violations themselves. However they tend to have the legal staff to either buy off the offended party after the fact or run them into bankruptcy via the court system. They see copyright as THEIR tool to use against others, not something that has to be respected or followed when it come to peons. Very similiar to military power actually...