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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
................... Because copyright also favoured the public at that time, the studios were able to copy old stories and make movies out of them, making them what they are today...............
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As well as favouring the studios so they could make money ........ but also help create an art form.
But reading newsheets of the time, you wonder why they needed to nick stories !
And.........
....."one of the most lucrative revenue streams for U.S. publishers during this period came from churning out unauthorized copies of British books before their rivals could. Authors didn't get a dime, say Burrows and Wallace." ......
So that's how much you owe us ?
Ignoring, of course the calumny that our upright honest publishers of the day read the odd foreign language book in their leisure time ........
