[Avodah] Copyright redux

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:10:23PM -0700, Daniel Israel wrote:
: I don't see it, though.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but the issue 
: here is ye'ush, no? ...

 From what I recall from learning Lulav haGazul... Yiush makes the item
the ganef's but does not make it any less geneivah. The lulav is still
assur mishum mitzvah haba'ah ba'aveirah.

So, IIUC, even if we can assume the author, artist or publisher is
meya'eish, how does that make it permissable?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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