Does Apple care about copyright?

Written by Jim Squires

Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:36

Just another piece of shameless self-promotion from yours truly. In addition to theBBPS (and the numerous other sites I've linked you to over the years) I'm also a contributor with MacApper. Yesterday I published a post about Apple's AppStore and the mountain of copyright abuses that bounce around there. You can check it out here.

My argument was that, as the body that approves this content, Apple has an obligation to prevent copyright violations from being approved for use on the AppStore. Everyone at MacApper seems to disagree with me. Oh well. I guess different opinions are what make the world go round. That and the sun's gravitational pull.

Agree? Disagree? Let us know here AND at MacApper! Comments ROCK.

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written by Bojy, February 19, 2009

In principal, I'm with you all the way, and it's way too prevailant in the app store with people looking to make a fast buck.

But in the real world, apple is making money off of this stuff both through apps store fees and through the sales of the iPhone, so why would they limit that. It's really easy for them to say its not our problem, we're just selling it. Think of all the cheap knock-off stuff you can buy in stores that's deliberately close to a licensed product at retail. If Target sell copyright infringing toys you wouldn't hold them soley responsible.

They should do it, but at the minute why would they?

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written by OddyOh, February 19, 2009

Interesting stuff. At first I agreed with you, but now I think I don't. To me it's kinda like if Apple offers a song on iTunes, let's say a cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", but the artist doing the cover never got permission to record the song. Is that Apple's problem? Or Bob Dylan's lawyers?

We'll see what happens as all their competitors open their own 'app stores' for various phones (Nokia, Google, etc). All of them will be littered with Tetris-clones on the first day.

Maybe Apple will open a new "iFringe" section of the store, with a respective Top Ten list.

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