Pirating Books in the 1600s

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• jbperry a day ago

  Would be interesting to see a good write-up of just how much publishers ripped off other peoples work in these early days.

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  • m463 a day ago

    I think the early french film - A Trip to the Moon - was pirated by edison and others in the united states and the original filmmakers didn't make any money

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

    specifically:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon#Release