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Originally Posted by Phebe
No, this doesn't invalidate copyright law, but it does make it irrelevant. It took me a little over an hour to acquire a rather nice OCR-ed copy of "Atlas Shrugged" quite free for my laptop, and adjust the type size to my liking. I am persuaded from reading these posts that most of you here could have done this in half the time or less! If you wanted to.
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I think that a better term than "irrelevant" might be "out of date." The idea of "copyright" seems to have an economic function, and if it does, it will be protected by the law. I think we are just in a transitional period, hobbled by our old ideas, and not quite yet seeing the new ones.