<title>"PIRACY"</title>
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+<indexterm id="idxmansfield" class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>Mansfield, William Murray, Lord</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
-Since the inception of the law regulating creative property, there
-has been a war against "piracy." The precise contours of this concept,
-"piracy," are hard to sketch, but the animating injustice is easy to
- capture.
-As Lord Mansfield wrote in a case that extended the reach of
+Since the inception of the law regulating creative property, there has
+been a war against "piracy." The precise contours of this concept,
+"piracy," are hard to sketch, but the animating injustice is easy to
+capture. As Lord Mansfield wrote in a case that extended the reach of
English copyright law to include sheet music,
</para>
<blockquote>
Bach v. Longman, 98 Eng. Rep. 1274 (1777) (Mansfield).
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm startref="idxmansfield" class='endofrange'/>
</blockquote>
<para>
Today we are in the middle of another "war" against "piracy." The
-Internet has provoked this war. The Internet makes possible the
- efficient
-spread of content. Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing is among the
-most efficient of the efficient technologies the Internet enables. Using
-distributed intelligence, p2p systems facilitate the easy spread of
- content
-in a way unimagined a generation ago.
+Internet has provoked this war. The Internet makes possible the
+efficient spread of content. Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing is among
+the most efficient of the efficient technologies the Internet
+enables. Using distributed intelligence, p2p systems facilitate the
+easy spread of content in a way unimagined a generation ago.
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</para>
<para>
(1983): 1152.
</para></footnote>
</para>
+<indexterm id="idxmansfield" class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>Mansfield, William Murray, Lord</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
Astonishingly to modern lawyers, one of the greatest judges in English
history, Lord Mansfield, agreed with the booksellers. Whatever
believed, Britain would mature from the controlled culture that the
Crown coveted to the free culture that we inherited.
</para>
+<indexterm startref="idxmansfield" class='endofrange'/>
<para>
The fight to defend the limits of the Statute of Anne was not to end
there, however, and it is here that Donaldson enters the mix.