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Old 12-06-2007, 11:42 AM   #45
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Did you know that the concept of copyright didn't exist until the time of Queen Anne in England and literature seems to have got along just fine without it?
Did you know that, because of that situation, the only people who could write and publish were either wealthy people or were kept by wealthy people? The advent of copyright actually helped to democratize the arts.
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