Do Good Samaritan laws apply to the internet? Alright if you find a purse, the morally right thing to do is to (1) put a sign up, (2) have them call you, and (3) then if they can prove that it’s theirs: you give it back to them. If you lose a flash-drive or media disk with all of your intellectual property (Oh, let’s say diagrams for a new IPod), what should the finder do?
If the finder puts your intellectual property on the internet, is that morally or legally bad? I believe that the best thing to do is to call whomever (e.g. Apple) and give it to them, and you can ask for a finder’s fee. But in a different case, where you do not know who the item belongs to: you should just shred it up and throw it away. They probably have another copy or could make one.
Lawboy-
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