What’s ironic to me is that had these companies pirated only a single work, wouldn’t that be a chargeable crime?
Clearly Bonnie and Clyde shouldn’t have been prosecuted. Imagine they were just robbing banks for literary research purposes. They could have then used the learnings to write a book and sell it commercially…
Or imagine one cracks 10000 copyrighted DVDs and then sells 30 second clips… (a derived work).
To me, for profit companies and universities have a huge difference — the latter is not seeking to directly commercially profit from copyrighted data.
Clearly Bonnie and Clyde shouldn’t have been prosecuted. Imagine they were just robbing banks for literary research purposes. They could have then used the learnings to write a book and sell it commercially…
Or imagine one cracks 10000 copyrighted DVDs and then sells 30 second clips… (a derived work).
To me, for profit companies and universities have a huge difference — the latter is not seeking to directly commercially profit from copyrighted data.