Copyright holders frequently refer to copyright infringement
as theft. In copyright law, infringement does not refer to
theft of physical objects that take away the owner’s
possession, but an instance where a person exercises one of
the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without
authorization. Courts
have distinguished between copyright infringement and theft.
For instance, the United States Supreme Court held in
Dowling v. United States (1985) that bootleg
phonorecords did not constitute stolen property. Instead,
„interference with copyright does not easily equate with
theft, conversion, or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a
separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a
copyright
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