- From: VORA,POORVI (HP-Corvallis,ex1) <poorvi_vora@hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:47:39 -0800
- To: "'Rigo Wenning'" <rigo@w3.org>, Dr Mark R Baker <mark.baker@pay2see.com>
- Cc: www-drm@w3.org
Rigo: "On the "stealable", I think, there is a fundamental difference. Stealing normal materialized goods takes away the possession and fruits of the thing to someone else. Copying digital content just produces another instance. It doesn't take away a piece from another human. The only thing it does is to not obey to some legal barrier of copying, invented to create a market. So copying outside the legal framework is just diminuishing the chances for the estimated benefit and NOT "stealing" at all. Being lawyers in a legal matter, we should be clear after all and we also should avoid the war-language of some marketing campaign." That brings to mind 3-D printing, where a material object (such as a cell-phone cover, even an artificial limb) is created with a printer, based on "3-D printing" a digital asset. It is interesting to see that another instance of a digital object corresponds to a physical object of a completely new kind, and, with technology improvements, could correspond to almost any material object - not just what we think of as `multimedia'/media asset. It also brings up the issue of the material worth of intellectual property vs. the material worth of its realization. Poorvi
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