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Originally Posted by CABAL49
Copyright laws do not work the same online. It is very hard to prove who did what unless there is physical proof which there is none online.
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Hard, not impossible. There are ways to prove you're a creator of a work. And copyright law is copyright law, regardless of whether it's online or not.
For example, a band posts a new track online that they've just created, putting it up for download on their web site.
Jimmy McLarceny shows up, and decides he can make some money off of it, placing it up for sale on a paid download site of music he claims he made.
Now obviously, if it went to court, the band would be able to produce other things relating to the song. Sheet music, track recordings, things that the person who took it and sold it wouldn't have.
Granted, this becomes more difficult with something like say, pixel art, but there are still ways to prove ownership.