December’s death or glory how you want it?
Copyright infringement has stirred the souls of artists and publishers since the time of Charles Dickens, who went to the United States in 1842 to ask the Americans to stop pirating his works.
His books were being reprinted there without his receiving a penny, but the Americans told him to jump in the lake.
How the world has changed. Now America’s a bastion for the defence of copyright and the country that once rejected international copyright laws is relentless in enforcing them.
However, 2009 might have marked the year when the enforcers lost valuable ground. (…)
Technology has forced the change, one in which there is no turning back.
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