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What does "no copyright infringement intended" mean?

It means the person who posted it has almost assuredlyviolated the copyright law and stolen someone else’s intellectual property and yet they’re too lazy to even bother to check or ask permission. It also means they’re completely clueless about how the law works and think that by denying an intent to harm someone they’re somehow immune to prosecution or a lawsuit. They’ll get a wake-up sooner or later!

Let’s think about this for a minute: Would a drunk driver who crashes their car into someone else’s property (or worse, kills someone) get away with saying, “No vehicular damage or homicide intended?” Would an employer who violates state or federal labor laws get a pass simply by saying, “No abuse of employees intended?” If somebody waltzes into a retail store and takes something out of the store without paying for it, do you think their security personnel are going to let that person walk simply because they say on their way out, “No shoplifting or theft intended?” I could go on and on with examples of nearly every legal violation in every field, but the bottom line is that the law simply doesn’t work that way.

Saying “no copyright infringement intended” is a red flag that the person saying it thinks they can escape responsibility for breaking the law simply by issuing a disclaimer. My guess is that they must be thinking to themself that surely if it’s someone’s first time and they’re obviously clueless about the law and clearly weren’t trying to infringe somebody’s copyright and really didn’t understand that they were stealing, they might get a little sympathy from a jury of their peers. However, copyright infringement isn’t decided by a jury; it’s decided by a judge who reviews the facts presented by both parties…and neither that judge nor the prosecutor’s attorney are known for sympathy.

If someone’s got the gall to post “no copyright infringement intended” along with their theft? That tells me they not only know it probably IS copyrighted but are also too lazy to find out for sure. And worse, rather than ask permission or err on the side of caution, they chose to do it anyway knowing that it was probably an infringement, albeit “unintentional.” If somebody knows something’s wrong and deliberately does it anyway, what does that tell you? They’re culpable AND aware and thus very definitely responsible.