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The Promise of a Post-Copyright World | QuestionCopyright.org
questioncopyright.org/promise, posted 2009 by peter in copyright history opinion politics toread
For three centuries, the publishing industry has been working very hard to obscure copyright's true origins, and to promote the myth that it was invented by writers and artists. Even today, they continue to campaign for ever stronger laws against sharing, for international treaties that compel all nations to conform to the copyright policies of the strictest, and most of all to make sure the public never asks exactly who this system is meant to help.