Are you protected by copyright law when you use pirated software?
A hypothetical scenario:
Suppose you create this fancy graphic art using a pirated software of Adobe Photoshop. Posting it on the Web, you found out that people claimed your art as theirs and made profits off it.
Are you protected by copyright law and can sue those wrong doers, or do your works automatically become part of the public domain once you used illegitimate software to create it?
The short answer is, yes, you still maintain your copyright. In analogy, If you write the world’s best novel on a stollen computer you still own the copyright to the novel.
The Software Freedom Law Center- Eben Moglen- Part 1
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