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-#| "Having failed in Parliament, the publishers turned to the courts in a "
-#| "series of cases. Their argument was simple and direct: The Statute of "
-#| "Anne gave authors certain protections through positive law, but those "
-#| "protections were not intended as replacements for the common law. "
-#| "Instead, they were intended simply to supplement the common law. Under "
-#| "common law, it was already wrong to take another person's creative "
-#| "\"property\" and use it without his permission. The Statute of Anne, the "
-#| "booksellers argued, didn't change that. Therefore, just because the "
-#| "protections of the Statute of Anne expired, that didn't mean the "
-#| "protections of the common law expired: Under the common law they had the "
-#| "right to ban the publication of a book, even if its Statute of Anne "
-#| "copyright had expired. This, they argued, was the only way to protect "
-#| "authors."