Friday, June 20, 2003

Seán McGrath explains why we can Blame/thank the Irish for copyright law. Mark O'Neill picked up the story the same day and expanded on it. A couple of saints engaging in a fierce battle over a supreme court ruling that said "To every cow its calf, to every book, its copy" (or to be more precise "Le gach bain a bainin, le gach leabhar a leabhrán."), resulting in 3000 mortalities and we talk about the 'copyright wars' today!

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