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on 2008-03-31 by hennerfehr

siehe dazu: http://www.pressetext.at/pte.mc?pte=080331024

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the century-old model by which authors are paid – a mixture of cash advances and royalties – was finished

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n 1701 The True-Born Englishman, a satirical poem by Daniel Defoe became a bestseller after an estimated 80,000 unauthorised copies were distributed. It did not make him rich but it did make him famous. In the preface to a later edition he wrote of his gratitude to the “pirates” who had sold it, the first known reference to intellectual property theft as piracy

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