Alan wrote:
Michael O'Keefe wrote:
When was this "roam free, as free as the birds" period of IP ?
Back in the 1800s, U.S. companies routinely "borrowed" other countries
patented and/or copyrighted items, not unlike China and friends do now.
Not that I'm implying boblq is quite _that_ old...
heh.
In the ACTUAL nought-nought's ? or sometime during the 19th century ?
When was "copyright" born ? I remember someone quoting how kings used to
hand them out like toilet paper to their friends, depriving the actual
artists of their works ?
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