Re: The First and Foremost PostGutenberg Distinction

From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_GMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:51:34 -0500

Re-posted for Charles Oppenheim whose posting arrived encrypted:

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From: C Oppenheim C.Oppenheim -- lboro.ac.uk
Date: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:47 AM
Subject: RE: Your posting came through encrypted

Hiya Stevan, this is what I sent:

Wallace-Evans' rambling incoherent essay also makes the following statement:

"As Johns explains, the precedent of literary copyright predates that
of mechanical patent, of which it was a necessary precursor, by some
three-quarters of a century."

In fact, patents in England predated copyright by more than a century.
 Wallace-Evans can't even get his most basic facts correct!  An essay
best ignored.

Charles
Received on Tue Nov 16 2010 - 01:45:21 GMT