Is it theft for me to put my name on a book I didn't write, on a song I didn't sing, on a game I didn't create, etc.?
It's fraud.
It might be fraud between the buyer and the seller. What if the buyer isn't interested in the identity of the seller and just wants the product?
Isn't the original creator of the work entitled to anything?
There's another problem:
1) Stolen work causes provable harm to the creator.
2) Competition causes provable harm to the creator.
How do you draw the line?
TLP: It might be fraud between the buyer and the seller. What if the buyer isn't interested in the identity of the seller and just wants the product? Isn't the original creator of the work entitled to anything?
A positive right? My goodness, no.
Peace
BioTube:However, I can't just take him out - I have to catch him and prove both that HE stole the watch and it is indeed my watch he was wearing
Not true. If you own the Mona Lisa and it is stolen, then later find it in the possession of another, you are still the owner and you have the right to reclaim it. It doesn't matter if its in the possession of the original thief or of another whom the thief gave it to.
TLP: Is it theft for me to put my name on a book I didn't write, on a song I didn't sing, on a game I didn't create, etc.?
Your scenario is too ambiguous to prove anything.
Is it illegal for me to buy a copy of Human Action, sign my name on the front cover, then sell it to Paul Krugman for 25 cents? Obviously not.
Are you asking should it be illegal for me to buy a printing press, and print copies of Human Action with a new cover that says written by Jon Bostwick, and then store them in my basement?That can't be a crime there is no victim.
Generally people who think it should be illegal for me to sell copies of Human Action that I've printed myself, think it should be illegal regardless of whom I put as the author.
Are you of the opinion that its okay for me to print and sell my own copies of Harry Potter so long as I put J.K Rowling?
Selling burned copies of a CD(or printed copies of a book) can not be stealing as the person who recorded the CD is not deprived of anything. How can they be robbed when they have not been separated from anything?
Knight_of_BAAWA:It's fraud.
But only if you are believed.
DBratton: Knight_of_BAAWA:It's fraud. But only if you are believed.
I really enjoy the fake rolex example. When people buy a fake rolex, they know what exactly what they are getting.
TLP:1) Stolen work causes provable harm to the creator.
Now you are begging the question aren't you? In your first post you asked if it was theft. Now you are just presuming that it is.
JonBostwick:Not true. If you own the Mona Lisa and it is stolen, then later find it in the possession of another, you are still the owner and you have the right to reclaim it. It doesn't matter if its in the possession of the original thief or of another whom the thief gave it to.