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To: billbears

Wait, wait...suppose you dropped the $10 bill in the parking lot of wal-mart and I picked it up, went in and bought a Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits album (I know, I know, but I'm drunk or something).

Now I own the album. Does that give me the right to make endless copies of it and ship them to China to satisfy the musical cravings of tens of millions of Neil Diamond fans?

Limitations are placed on private property all the time.


73 posted on 06/27/2006 4:25:44 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell
Now I own the album. Does that give me the right to make endless copies of it and ship them to China to satisfy the musical cravings of tens of millions of Neil Diamond fans? Limitations are placed on private property all the time.

Nope not the same. However I would be a little concerned you spent $10 on a Neil Diamond album...In that case you are stealing from Neil Diamond, you are infringing upon his right (and the right of the corporation that published the album) to make a profit. Your rights to do with your property or act as you see fit stops when you infringe upon the rights of another. Pride in a symbol is going to be a little hard to define as a right.

It would be the same however if you chose to use the Neil Diamond CD as target practice on the practice range.

86 posted on 06/27/2006 4:33:09 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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