[Irtalk] 'The Copyright Wars' Rage on After 300 Years | PopMatters

[Hilton Gibson]

*​​Finally, there is a bigger picture to bear in mind, a note on which he
ends stirringly: “And that a vast existing cultural patrimony, already paid
for and amortized, sits locked behind legal walls, hostage to outmoded
notions of property, when at the flick of a switch it could belong to all
humanity – that is little short of grotesque.”*

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