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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
As an aside, the argument about stifling creativity does not hold much water for me. Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, even Charles Dickens did not have millions of free books to stimulate their creativity and they along with thousands of others seemed to manage okay.
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Shakespeare was a massive pirate by today's standards. Take a look at the Wikipedia article on Romeo and Juliet, for instance, and see how heavily it borrows from other recent works.
Imagine if copyright law had stopped us getting Romeo and Juliet.