Stealing Time

from Let The Drum Beat by The Speak Easy

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The Supreme Court ruled in the case Dowling v. United States (1985) that bootleg phonorecords did not constitute stolen property and that "...interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud."

The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright... "an infringer of the copyright."

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Sometimes I steal your words,
Sometimes I steal your chords
Things I say and play they may cause wars
Who's to blame? I don't know what worse.

Stealing time gets you nowhere
Cause in your mind you think they don't care
But what you'll find is it's no fair
Feeling fine's why you go scared

Stealing time, don't laugh and lie to me.
Real unkind, half my anxiety,
Sorry to be blind, but why are we?
I love your mind. Why can't the liar leave?

Don't play games saying whose to blame
Makes me plainly scared to use your name
So I'll say it how I really feel
Good artists imitate and great artists steal.

We're stealing time
On someone else's dime
We're stealing time
Why's it such a crime
We're stealing time.

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from Let The Drum Beat, track released January 21, 2011

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