[Avodah] Copyright and e-daf

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:05:42PM -0500, R Zev Sero wrote about copyright:
: I don't see how there could possibly be "hasagat gevul" involved either.
: You're not making the copy in order to be mean to the author, and hurt
: him when you could just as easily not do so...

Hasagas gevul requires malicious intent? I thought it's assur even if
you're just doing it to find a way to support the family.

:                                        That's a perfectly rational
: reason to do something.  There is no chiyuv to lose money in order to
: be nice to people.

Of course there is. Tzedaqah. Leqet, shikhechah, pei'ah. Ma'aser. (But
not terumah -- compare the Chinukh on them, terumah is more like berakhos
than like tzedaqah.)

Why wouldn't observing hasagas gevul also require monitary loss?

: Copyright is not property, it's a monopoly granted to authors by the
: will of Congress....

This presumes the conclusion. I again invite you to see my earlier posts
of notes of a shiur by R Zev Reichman (given at the peak of the Napster
controversy) at
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol07/v07n058.shtml> and
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol07/v07n058.shtml#13>.

There is a very old cheirem based on the applicability of hasagas
gevul.

We also need to address dinah dmalchusah and hezeq.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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