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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I suppose you could believe the written history of copyright if you choose to. But for most of copyright's history it was used as a tool of censorship. To think that the purpose of copyright magically changed once it reached the United States is bit foolish if you ask me.
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Well, copyright only predates the Constitution by less than 100 years. And define censorship? If you are defining it as the owner of a piece of a work preventing others from printing it, then yes, they do, but that is not censorship.
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Bill