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Copyright was born out of the Inquisition: the record of having passed censorship was the first document proving an exclusive right to print.

Drawn from what Ada Palmer said

censorship

censorship Who gets to remove what: speech, code and money, and whether a state prosecuting a platform is regulation or something else.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

What Ada Palmer actually said

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  1. Ada Palmer

    Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas

    and you may now use the actual Inquisition record of you having gone through censorship as the document to prove that you and only you have the right to print the book and therefore you can sue people for plagiarizing it or printing an unauthorized edition. And so, the very first version of copyright is the Inquisition.

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