Is copyright infringement theft?   But I’m not going to answer
that question today.     You’re in a Helicopter     Dowling v.
United States: Misusing Case Law        The holding of Dowling
was indeed narrow:                   1. Cue obligatory Clinton
jokes. []   5. 473 US 217-218 []   6. 473 US 220-221. []   10.
Pg. 22. []  Share: Reddit Google+ LinkedIn     1. Even we
philosophers tire of purely semantic quibbles. But here there is
more than just a semantic issue; the dispute over whether to
call infringement a kind of “theft”, I think, arises from a real
puzzle over how to think of this stuff that is copyrighted. (I
think I’m with Sheffner here.) Surely there is something
different between my stealing your record collection, on the one
hand, and my sneaking into your house and copying your record
collection, on the other. One obvious way of explaining what’s
wrong with stealing of the first kind is to point to the bad
effects that my actions create—you can no longer enjoy your
records. (I leave aside entir