May 2000
Freedom-Or Copyright?
By legalizing the copying of e-books, we can turn copyright back into the industrial regulation it once was.
By Richard Stallman
Once upon a time, in the age of the printing press, an industrial regulation was established for the business of writing and publishing. It was called copyright. Copyright's purpose was to encourage the publication of a diversity of written works. Copyright's method was to make publishers get permission from authors to reprint recent writings.
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