Re: Re: What kind of pirate am I?

On Oct 15, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Mary E Tyler wrote:

> Ah, but prior to the law, there was no intellectual property, moral or  
> not. Prior to the law, intellectual property was thought to belong to  
> everyone and it was generally the publisher who profited, not the  
> author.

Hmm, now that's an odd statement. By "the law" do you mean copyright law? There was no need for intellectual property law until such IP could be copied. And prior to any such laws, authors profited in different ways (and there was no "publisher", generally just a printer.)


Kirk

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