copyright. Prices of the classics were thus kept high; competition to
produce better or cheaper editions was eliminated.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxbritishparliament' class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>British Parliament</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
Now, there's something puzzling about the year 1774 to anyone who
knows a little about copyright law. The better-known year in the
world where the Parliament is more pliant, free culture would be less
protected.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxbritishparliament' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxbooksenglishlaw' class='endofrange'/>
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</chapter>
<indexterm id='idxarchivesdigital1' class='startofrange'>
<primary>archives, digital</primary>
</indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>bots</primary></indexterm>
<para>
<emphasis role='strong'>In April 1996</emphasis>, millions of
<quote>bots</quote>—computer codes designed to
that space to do as you wished with this part of our culture. You were
allowed to build on it as you wished without fear of legal control.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>bots</primary></indexterm>
<para>
But if you moved your club onto the Internet, and made it generally
available for others to join, the story would be very different. Bots