What are you missing about the fact that a t-shirt with Mickey Mouse on it and a t-shirt with a pattern of 1s and 0s are completely different. Is anyone buying and wearing the 1s and 0s shirt instead of buying and wearing a Mickey shirt?
You can’t say the same thing about digital copies! Is anyone buying the 1s and 0s of a JPEG in a digital medium and expecting to just have a bunch of 1s and 0s?
BTW, if anyone wants access to those 1s and 0s they only need to go to the Disney website to download the JPEG… they don’t need to buy my 1s and 0s shirt.
You’re just not thinking about this in legal terms: who has wronged who and how did they wrong them. These lawsuits are not criminal, not public wrongs, but rather private wrongs. People must show that there are concrete damages against their specific property!
What are you missing about the fact that a t-shirt with Mickey Mouse on it and a t-shirt with a pattern of 1s and 0s are completely different. Is anyone buying and wearing the 1s and 0s shirt instead of buying and wearing a Mickey shirt?
You can’t say the same thing about digital copies! Is anyone buying the 1s and 0s of a JPEG in a digital medium and expecting to just have a bunch of 1s and 0s?
BTW, if anyone wants access to those 1s and 0s they only need to go to the Disney website to download the JPEG… they don’t need to buy my 1s and 0s shirt.
You’re just not thinking about this in legal terms: who has wronged who and how did they wrong them. These lawsuits are not criminal, not public wrongs, but rather private wrongs. People must show that there are concrete damages against their specific property!