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"Piracy is theft" was a slogan used by UK non-profit organization
"Piracy is theft" was a slogan used by UK non-profit organization FAST
Fast or FAST may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* "Fast" (Juice Wrld song), 2019
* "Fast" (Luke Bryan song), 2016
* "Fast" (Sueco song), 2019
* "Fast" (GloToven song), 2019
* ''Fast'', an album by Custom, 2002
* ''Fast'', a 2010 short fil ...
(Federation Against Software Theft). It was first used in the 1980s and has since then been used by other similar organisations such as MPAA
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is an American trade association representing the five major film studios of the United States, the mini-major Amazon MGM Studios, as well as the video streaming services Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. F ...
(now the MPA). It has also been used as a statement, although that has been challenged as being inaccurate.
Copyright holders frequently refer to copyright infringement as theft, although such misuse has been rejected by legislatures and courts. In copyright law, infringement does not refer to theft of physical objects that take away the owner's possession, but an instance where a person exercises one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without authorization. Courts have distinguished between copyright infringement and theft.
For instance, the United States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on question ...
held in '' Dowling v. United States'' (1985) that bootleg phonorecords did not constitute stolen property. Instead,
"interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft,The court said that in the case of copyright infringement, the province guaranteed to the copyright holder by copyright law – certainconversion Conversion or convert may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''The Convert'', a 2023 film produced by Jump Film & Television and Brouhaha Entertainment * "Conversion" (''Doctor Who'' audio), an episode of the audio drama ''Cyberman'' * ..., or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright: ' ..an infringer of the copyright.'"
exclusive right
An exclusive right, or exclusivity, is a ''de facto'', non-tangible prerogative existing in law (that is, the power or, in a wider sense, right) to perform an action or acquire a benefit and to permit or deny others the right to perform the same ...
s – is invaded, but no control, physical or otherwise, is taken over the copyright, nor is the copyright holder wholly deprived of using the copyrighted work or exercising the exclusive rights held.'' Dowling v. United States'' (1985), 473 U.S. 207, pp. 217–218.
The Software & Information Industry Association has claimed that "piracy is stealing," even in light of the legal difference between copyright infringement and theft.
See also
* ''Beware of illegal video cassettes
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) is a British organisation established in 1983 to protect and represent the interests of its members' intellectual property (IP). FACT also investigates fraud and cybercrime, and provides global due d ...
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* '' Don't Copy That Floppy''
* Home Recording Rights Coalition
The Home Recording Rights Coalition is a non-profit advocacy organization in the U.S., whose mission is to protect the rights of consumers to view, listen to, and record radio and television broadcasts.
Founded in 1981 in response to the '' Son ...
* ''Home Taping Is Killing Music
"Home Taping Is Killing Music" was the slogan of a 1980s anti-copyright infringement propaganda campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a British music industry trade group. With the rise in cassette recorder popularity, the BPI fe ...
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* '' Knock-off Nigel''
* ''Property is theft!
Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, r ...
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* Public information film (PIF)
* Public service announcement
A public service announcement (PSA) is a message in the public interest disseminated by the media without charge to raise public awareness and change behavior. Oftentimes these messages feature unsettling imagery, ideas or behaviors that are des ...
* Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
* Spin (public relations)
In public relations and politics, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through knowingly
providing a biased interpretation of an event. While traditional public relations and advertising may manage their presentation of facts, "spin" often i ...
* ''Steal This Film
''Steal This Film'' is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property directed by Jamie King, produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.
Two parts, and one special The ...
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* The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay, commonly abbreviated as TPB, is a free searchable online index of Film, movies, music, video games, Pornographic film, pornography and software. Founded in 2003 by Swedish think tank , The Pirate Bay facilitates the connection ...
* '' Who Makes Movies?''
* '' You can click, but you can't hide''
* ''You Wouldn't Steal a Car
"You Wouldn't Steal a Car" is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, and July 27 on home media, which was part of the anti-copyright infringement campaign "Piracy. It's ...
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References
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