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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. We are extremely lucky to have any Shakespeare at all, precisely because his works were not protected. Had he had the protection of copyright, we probably would have some of his missing plays, and certainly what we do have would be more authentic.
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We're missing something from history but if people had been unable to copy it at will we'd still have it because um....
You lost me.
How would reducing the number of copies that could be made and the ability of people to freely preform over the years have increased the amount of work that has lasted to this day? Is there some magical conservation of bard-fu? One copy is has 1000 years of power but 1000 copies only last for a year each?
I don't normally use drugs but I'd very much like to try whatever it is you're on.