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Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

David Bellos,

Alexandre Montagu

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Aug 07, 2025 M W rated it liked it · review of another edition

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This was an interesting book, although every prospective reader should understand that this is indeed a history of copyright, and a substantial part of the book deals with its origins and early instances of disputes that helped shape the laws. More recent developments appear only in the last quarter or so, and while some aspects of the remote history are necessary to understand these and the fact that current copyright law is mostly a crass perversion of initial motivations, you really need to b ...more

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