We are lawbreakers all of us

Mashable writes about how we are all infringing on copyrights all of the time.

This is starting to look very much like the Soviet system in its hay-day. If you make the law so that everyone has no choice but to break it just by getting out of bed, you can arrest anyone you like and make it seem legitimate.

Is Infringement Avoidable?: “Replying to an email with quoted text? Infringement! Reply to 20 emails? You’re looking at $3 million in statutory damages. Doodle a sketch of a building? Unauthorized derivative work. Read a poem out loud? Unauthorized performance. Forward a photograph that a friend took? Infringement! Take a short film of a birthday dinner with some friends and catch some artwork on the wall in the background? Infringement!”

via Mashable!