+"which it is (metaphorically) attached is tangible. See Adam Mossoff, "
+"<quote>What Is Property? Putting the Pieces Back Together,</quote> "
+"<citetitle>Arizona Law Review</citetitle> 45 (2003): 373, 429 n. 241."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
+#: freeculture.xml:4719
+msgid ""
+"But how, and to what extent, and in what form—the details, in other "
+"words—matter. To get a good sense of how this practice of turning the "
+"intangible into property emerged, we need to place this "
+"<quote>property</quote> in its proper context.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" "
+"id=\"0\"/>"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><partintro><para>
+#: freeculture.xml:4734
+msgid ""
+"My strategy in doing this will be the same as my strategy in the preceding "
+"part. I offer four stories to help put the idea of <quote>copyright material "
+"is property</quote> in context. Where did the idea come from? What are its "
+"limits? How does it function in practice? After these stories, the "
+"significance of this true statement—<quote>copyright material is "
+"property</quote>— will be a bit more clear, and its implications will "
+"be revealed as quite different from the implications that the copyright "
+"warriors would have us draw."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><title>
+#: freeculture.xml:4747
+msgid "CHAPTER SIX: Founders"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><secondary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4748
+msgid "English copyright law developed for"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4751
+msgid "England, copyright laws developed in"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><chapter><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4752 freeculture.xml:13962
+msgid "United Kingdom"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><secondary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4752
+msgid "history of copyright law in"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4753 freeculture.xml:4923
+msgid "Branagh, Kenneth"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4754
+msgid "Henry V"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4756 freeculture.xml:4888
+msgid "Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
+#: freeculture.xml:4758
+msgid ""
+"<emphasis role='strong'>William Shakespeare</emphasis> wrote "
+"<citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle> in 1595. The play was first "
+"published in 1597. It was the eleventh major play that Shakespeare had "
+"written. He would continue to write plays through 1613, and the plays that "
+"he wrote have continued to define Anglo-American culture ever since. So "
+"deeply have the works of a sixteenth-century writer seeped into our culture "
+"that we often don't even recognize their source. I once overheard someone "
+"commenting on Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Henry V: <quote>I liked it, "
+"but Shakespeare is so full of clichés.</quote>"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4769 freeculture.xml:4853 freeculture.xml:4962 freeculture.xml:5095
+msgid "Conger"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4770
+msgid "Tonson, Jacob"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4776
+msgid "Jonson, Ben"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4777
+msgid "Dryden, John"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
+#: freeculture.xml:4776
+msgid ""
+"<placeholder type=\"indexterm\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"indexterm\" "
+"id=\"1\"/> Jacob Tonson is typically remembered for his associations with "
+"prominent eighteenth-century literary figures, especially John Dryden, and "
+"for his handsome <quote>definitive editions</quote> of classic works. In "
+"addition to <citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle>, he published an "
+"astonishing array of works that still remain at the heart of the English "
+"canon, including collected works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Milton, "
+"and John Dryden. See Keith Walker, <quote>Jacob Tonson, Bookseller,</quote> "
+"<citetitle>American Scholar</citetitle> 61:3 (1992): 424–31."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. f2
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para><footnote><para>
+#: freeculture.xml:4789
+msgid ""
+"Lyman Ray Patterson, <citetitle>Copyright in Historical "
+"Perspective</citetitle> (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968), "
+"151–52."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. PAGE BREAK 97
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><para>
+#: freeculture.xml:4772
+msgid ""
+"In 1774, almost 180 years after <citetitle>Romeo and Juliet</citetitle> was "
+"written, the <quote>copy-right</quote> for the work was still thought by "
+"many to be the exclusive right of a single London publisher, Jacob "
+"Tonson.<placeholder type=\"footnote\" id=\"0\"/> Tonson was the most "
+"prominent of a small group of publishers called the Conger<placeholder "
+"type=\"footnote\" id=\"1\"/> who controlled bookselling in England during "
+"the eighteenth century. The Conger claimed a perpetual right to control the "
+"<quote>copy</quote> of books that they had acquired from authors. That "
+"perpetual right meant that no one else could publish copies of a book to "
+"which they held the copyright. Prices of the classics were thus kept high; "
+"competition to produce better or cheaper editions was eliminated."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <book><part><chapter><indexterm><primary>
+#: freeculture.xml:4801 freeculture.xml:4854 freeculture.xml:4994 freeculture.xml:5175 freeculture.xml:5331
+msgid "British Parliament"
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