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Dbrand is suing Casetify for ripping off its Teardown designs - The Verge
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This is definitely shitty.
Related: JerryRigEverything just came out with a video about this and titled "I got robbed" and called it theft a bunch of times. This is copyright infringement, maybe trademark infringement, but not "theft" or "robbery". No property or money was taken from any party such that they no longer have access to it. It's important to be accurate about this.
Edit:
Here is a list of all the media I've found surrounding this that falsely claims stealing, theft or robbery:
I havent watched it yet but now I will not watch it for the blatant baiting.
Thought it was about the bunker he was building...
I didn't watch it so I had no idea it was about this but the thumbnail and the click bait title made me unsubscribe from him.
Copyright infringement is also known as intellectual property theft. I still disagree with his choice of video title.
"Intellectual property" as a concept is designed to trick people into thinking copyright, trademark, and patent infringement are equivalent to theft. It's an incorrect and pernicious use of the word "theft".
I thought IP just referred to something you can't physically steal and instead copy.
Intellectual property is an umbrella term for copyright, patents, and trademarks used to make it sound like "property" is "stolen" when licensing agreements are violated.
I always considered it like thought property, not exactly tangible and the closest you could do is copy it.
The idea that it shares the same features as anything else we consider "property" is the problem, so why call it property? The only thing that one can "own" in this regime is the license itself, and that doesn't go away just because someone violates its terms.
I mean. Literally, literally means figuratively now. People look at DVDs and say they're not a digital copy when they are written digitally. Words are fluid and contextual so to throw out half a phrase is to throw out the ability to understand it.
An intellectual property would then logically follow it is a valuable thing or idea that is then legally controlled.
You're getting downvoted because people don't like the way the real world works.