Is copyright infringement wrong?
• MP3s are not a physical thing, so no actual value is lost by “stealing” a song. • Intellectual property should not follow the same rules as physical property. • “…the misused notion of intellectual property as a form of tangible property.” Lemley • “Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.” Jefferson • “…making intellectual property decisions by analogy to physical object property, or even to older intellectual property policies, is a mistake.” Stallman • If taping off the radio is okay, then why not trading MP3s? • If sharing with one friend is ok, then why is sharing with everybody wrong? • The Internet is global, and the RIAA is forcing American laws on the world. • The international community may abide by the Berne Convention, but the United States’ DMCA goes beyond what the World Intellectual Property Organization required in the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty. EFF-2 • “The U.S. government has joined forces with the entertainment industry to stop the freewhee
