Plagiarism – is a theft or not?
Few times in my artistic life some persons nicked my ideas, texts and graphics, and a film – signed with their names and were paid or just wanted to earn money for my job. From the logical point of view, for me these were thefts. This was not only taking my products without paying, but also there was an intention to earn money. As a victim I was taken down. This was disgusting and awful. I felt very bad seeing my work being signed with a name of a thief. Unfortunately, when I was in a court, they ignored my feelings and they said: there was very small danger for the public interest and therefore it is not very important act at all. They ignored me as an artist and said that because everyone has access to internet (one theft was done using internet) everyone can have my work for free because internet is for all the people and for free!
Is that right?