After people reacted so positively to the banner I made I had the idea to do the same with c/anarchism. But what to draw? Well I took the existing image and traced over it, adding some more character.
License (as always): CC-0, no rights reserved. Especially since it’s traced over a generated image.
Says who?
Every law on the subject deals with “infringement”, not “theft”.
Copyright is a state-mandated monopoly on reproducing a specific creative work. Violating the state’s rules about that monopoly is not “theft”.
To actually have IP theft, you’d have to use some nefarious means to acquire ownership of the IP, taking it away from the artist.
If your friend made an artwork, but before they published it, you took it to the copyright office and had the copyright registered in your name … now that would be IP “theft”. You actually stole the IP from someone and deprived them of that IP by doing so.
I agree.
Wrong, because you are operating from a non-capitalistic mindset. The artist is not suddenly able to reap the benefits of socialism or communism simply because you wish the economic system to be different. We can distinguish between public, private, and personal property all we want, but they’re nonetheless still unrealized concepts. The artist must still eat, and depriving them of their work by feeding it into a plagiarism machine is not a step towards tearing the old system down; it is in direct support of it.
So you can handwave and be a legalese pedant all you want, but the reality is that copying art in this current economic system directly deprives the artist of their livelihood. Sounds like theft to me.
ETA: if you don’t care about artists, then just say that. At least it would be honest.
But you’re not depriving them of their work. They still have their work.
What you’re maybe depriving them of is the ability to sell their work.
Wow, what a great distinction. All the artists have been fighting for nothing.
That’s not what I’ve been saying. The whole time, I’m just trying to get you to see the distinction and get you to realize that “stealing” and “theft” are not the correct words to use to describe what is being done.
Words mean things, and standing up for artists doesn’t excuse hyperbolic twisting of language.
Okay, then what is Identity Theft? You’re just copying someone’s identity (perhaps even multiple times) and then acting like them, right?
Or is it just Identity Infringement?
Identity theft is mostly a misnomer as well, yes. It’s more accurately called ‘impersonation’ or just plain ‘fraud’. (And you’ll find that “identity theft” itself isn’t a term that’s actually used much in the legal system. Just like “IP theft”, it’s mostly a pop culture term, not a technical legal term.)