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<blockquote data-quote="Aryoche" data-source="post: 111781" data-attributes="member: 260">Okay, I'm glad you provided that link, but if you (or your friend) are going to quote the law, please do so correctly:&quot;Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following: To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;To prepare derivative works based upon the work;To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works;To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; andIn the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.&quot;Downloading a work owned by someone else does not make you the owner, nor does it give you the right to distribute it. The holder of the copyrighted work may distribute it as they see fit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aryoche, post: 111781, member: 260"] Okay, I'm glad you provided that link, but if you (or your friend) are going to quote the law, please do so correctly: "Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act [B]generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following: [/B] To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords; To prepare derivative works based upon the work; To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works; To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission." Downloading a work owned by someone else does not make you the owner, nor does it give you the right to distribute it. The holder of the copyrighted work may distribute it as they see fit. [/QUOTE]

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