On: Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They Can Just Take Somebody Else’s Work?

[taproot]

If transfer of ownership never takes place, then why do they keep trying to call it theft?

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[utilitron → taproot]

You are thinking of larceny. If you had an idea for a product and told me about it, and I then took that idea and used it. That would still be theft. It wasn't MY idea. Theft can exist as a metaphysical object.

The theft in question is production/distribution rights.