Context: Copyright holders frequently refer to copyright infringement as theft. In copyright law, infringement does not refer to theft of physical objects that take away the owner's possession, but an instance where a person exercises one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without authorization. Courts have distinguished between copyright infringement and theft. For instance, the United States Supreme Court held in Dowling v. United States (1985) that bootleg phonorecords did not constitute stolen property. Instead, "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.'" The court said that in the case of copyright infringement, the province guaranteed to the copyright holder by copyright law – certain exclusive rights – is invaded, but no control, physical or otherwise, is taken over the copyright, nor is the copyright holder wholly deprived of using the copyrighted work or exercising the exclusive rights held.

Question: When you are accused theft as it relates to copyright law, you are exercising exclusive rights without what?
Answer: authorization

Question: What have courts said there is a difference between?
Answer: copyright infringement and theft

Question: In Dowling v. United States, what did bootleg records NOT constitute?
Answer: theft, conversion, or fraud

Question: What is the separate term of art to define misappropriation of copyright?
Answer: The Copyright Act

Question: What did the court say was invaded?
Answer: certain exclusive rights

Question: When you are accused theft as it relates to copyright law, you are exercising exclusive rights with what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What haven't courts said there is a difference between?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In Dowling v. United States, what did bootleg records constitute?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is the separate term of art to define appropriation of copyright?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did the court say was evaded?
Answer: Unanswerable