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Old 03-08-2012, 02:45 PM   #199
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by Giggleton View Post
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.
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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