The OER Knowledge Cloud: Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is

Published	23 September 2026
Publisher	TechDirt
Country	United States, North America

ABSTRACT

For basically all of Techdirt’s history, we’ve explained that copyright infringement is not “theft,” and that using that term is misleading in dangerous ways. It’s been a few years since we last mentioned it, but the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dowling vs. the US has always been the clearest legal statement on this point.

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