{"id":531,"date":"2018-05-08T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/?p=531"},"modified":"2018-05-08T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:13:36","slug":"is-copyright-infringement-really-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/2018\/05\/08\/is-copyright-infringement-really-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Copyright Infringement Really a Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <I>Indy Star<\/I> <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"nr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/2018\/05\/08\/copyright-infringement-photography-indianapolis-skyline-rich-bell\/554869002\/\">reports<\/a> that a man named Rich Bell has been suing people for unauthorized use of his photo of the Indianapolis skyline.  Some people, according to Bell and the <I>Indy Star<\/I> even replaced Bell&#8217;s copyright notice with their own.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone is on Bell&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Stoltz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation is quoted in the article as arguing that the legal penalties are disproportionate to the crime:  &#8220;Those really high penalties create an incentive to embark on litigation campaigns.&#8221;  And unnamed people are quoted in the article as calling Bell a &#8220;copyright troll.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that people shouldn&#8217;t steal, and I&#8217;m not convinced by arguments that the Internet has made it too easy to do so, or that everyone is doing it.  It&#8217;s also apparently pretty easy and common to shoplift, but we seem to have much less tolerance for that.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>The photo and more details are here:  <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"nr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/2018\/05\/08\/copyright-infringement-photography-indianapolis-skyline-rich-bell\/554869002\/\">Copyright infringement lawsuits make Indy skyline photo worth a lot more than 1,000 words<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been suing people for unauthorized use of his photo, but not everyone is on Bell&#8217;s side.  Why do we have more tolerance for copyright infringement than for other kinds of theft?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17],"tags":[44,73,45,74,75,76],"section":[],"destination":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-photography","tag-copyright","tag-copyright-infringement","tag-copyright-law","tag-indy-star","tag-mitch-stoltz","tag-rich-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}