Re: New York Times

On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Martin Medeiros wrote:
>
> It is interesting to note that the New York Times is playing
> the exact same role of the book-publishers of 16th century
> England did which forced the passage of the Statue of Anne,
> the genesis of modern copyright law. This time the battlefield
> is on the net instead of pulp.

Is there currently the public resistance to monopolization that was the driving force behind the anti-monopoly provisions in the Statute of Anne? Without that it may be difficult to get a contemporary equivalent of the Statue of Anne.

                            Steven Bosnick
                         sbosnick[_at_]uoguelph.ca
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