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Originally Posted by Harmon
Do you see it now? They made fewer copies in order to prevent piracy.
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If you think about it for about 10 seconds or so you will see that this cannot be true. The rivals can easily get the script by having an actor attend the play and memorizing the lines.
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Originally Posted by Harmon
Where? I don't recall doing that, so unless you can point it out, I'll just continue to think I didn't.
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Or you could read what you wrote:
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Originally Posted by Harmon
On the other hand, because of the lack of copyright, we do not have any accurate version of Shakespeare's plays. If you know anything beyond high school Shakespeare, you know, for instance, that there are two different versions of Hamlet.
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Originally Posted by Harmon
Not Shakespeare. He was that unusual thing, a creative artist who was also a businessman. Depend upon it, he would have thrived under copyright.
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He thrived without it showing yet again that copyright is not necessary.