Sale of "free" stuff on eBay

[Michael Nadeau]

> >> What if someone compiled copyrighted data (giving credit to the
> >> owners) onto a CD, and gave it away for FREE, but made their money
> >> by having advertising inside the contents -- would that be
> >> considered ethical?
>
> > Just giving credit to the copyright owners doesn't mean you are in
> > compliance with copyright law.
>
> The question asked "ethical", not "legal".  They are very different for
> a lot of people (and neither is a subset of the other, for many, such
> as me - there are illegal things I consider ethical and legal things I
> consider unethical.)
>

My point is that it is unethical to use someone's copyrighted material
without their permission or knowledge of exactly how it will be used. It
also happens to be illegal.