Law - IP
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“The first copyright law was a censorship law. It was not about protecting the rights of authors, or encouraging them to produce new works. Authors’ rights were in little danger in sixteenth-century England, and the recent arrival of the printing press (the world’s first copying machine) was if anything energizing to writers.
Setting the historical record straight: copyright was designed by distributors, to subsidize distributors not creators.
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