Comments on: Identityright http://stephenskory.com/2007/11/26/identityright Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kristin http://stephenskory.com/2007/11/26/identityright/comment-page-1#comment-2918 Kristin Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:30:29 +0000 http://stephenskory.com/2007/11/26/identityright#comment-2918 Interesting points and a point well taken about identity theft. A couple of comments: The writers are also striking for an equitable share of DVD sales of the shows they wrote. The contact they have now gives them almost no share of the huge profits Hollywood makes on sales of shows after they have aired. This is a contractual issue. The issue of contracts is where the difference lies in copyright law and identity theft. Copywrite law seems to act like a defacto contract between the creator of words or art and anyone else who comes along and wants to use those words and makes money from someone else's creative work. Identify theft is no breeching a contract. Which is what makes it that much worse. Most time ID theft is just that -- straight up theft of something which does not belong to you. We have no contacts with the government, businesses (most times) and banks that sell or misuse our personal information for profit. The penalty of this type of theft, in my opinion, should be even more severe. So I agree that the penalties for losing, misplacing or outright stealing identities should be made much harsher. Interesting points and a point well taken about identity theft. A couple of comments:
The writers are also striking for an equitable share of DVD sales of the shows they wrote. The contact they have now gives them almost no share of the huge profits Hollywood makes on sales of shows after they have aired. This is a contractual issue.

The issue of contracts is where the difference lies in copyright law and identity theft. Copywrite law seems to act like a defacto contract between the creator of words or art and anyone else who comes along and wants to use those words and makes money from someone else’s creative work.

Identify theft is no breeching a contract. Which is what makes it that much worse. Most time ID theft is just that — straight up theft of something which does not belong to you. We have no contacts with the government, businesses (most times) and banks that sell or misuse our personal information for profit. The penalty of this type of theft, in my opinion, should be even more severe.

So I agree that the penalties for losing, misplacing or outright stealing identities should be made much harsher.

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