@djls45 said in In which pie_flavor presumptuously postulates that pilfering of protected property is perfectly permissible; perhaps even preferable.:
@anotherusername said in In which pie_flavor presumptuously postulates that pilfering of protected property is perfectly permissible; perhaps even preferable.:
@djls45 said in In which pie_flavor presumptuously postulates that pilfering of protected property is perfectly permissible; perhaps even preferable.:
@Groaner said in In which pie_flavor presumptuously postulates that pilfering of protected property is perfectly permissible; perhaps even preferable.:
@pie_flavor said in In which pie_flavor presumptuously postulates that pilfering of protected property is perfectly permissible; perhaps even preferable.:
@djls45 said in In which pie_flavor presumptuously postulates that pilfering of protected property is perfectly permissible; perhaps even preferable.:
If you have illegally acquired the copyrighted tool, then you do not have a license to use it, so anything you create is subject to the courts deciding that you don't own it or hold its copyright.
Stuff created using a tool is 100% not a derivative work of the tool. It contains no components of the tool and does not require the tool to function.
Ooh! Here's another analogy that has yet to be trotted out in this thread:
Suppose one has a video camera set up in their living room, aimed at a TV in such a way that the TV does not comprise the whole frame of the shot, and then plays a movie on said TV.
Rather, someone steals a video camera and then records something with it. What ought to be done with the resulting video?
What if the someone is a macaque and the camera is a still camera and the result is a photo?
A macaque isn't a person, so it can't own a camera.
(And in that case, the camera was used as the camera-owner intended to take photos as he desired, so he was essentially just a photographer using an unconventional means of environmental trigger to take photos.)
Note to self: when (not if -- cc @ben_lubar) we get emoji reactions, come back and rate the quoted post