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But AI tools pose a big challenge to copyright regime Copyright is one of the biggest money machines in the world. Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos and...

The Editors on Lincoln, copyright law, Dana Gordon, Mozart & Brahms, Edwin Rickards & more from the world of culture.

The law doth punish man or woman That steals the goose from off the common But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose The authors of a fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called copyright begin their book with this epigraph from an ancient English protest song against fencing,

Luke Lyman on Leo Strauss, copyright law & Krishna.

Whether it benefits creators or fuels inequality depends on who you ask | Culture

Plato and Pushkin, Mickey Mouse and “The Simpsons” make (permissible) appearances in this surprisingly zippy history of copyright protection.

Louis Menand reviews “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs,” by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu, and discusses how ChatGPT and the like are challenging our system of intellectual property.

Who Owns This Sentence? by Alexandre Montagu and David Bellos delves into copyright’s weird history – from sporks to inflatable banana suits

Some western commentators have not been slow to voice suspicions of someone who managed to live, relatively comfortably, in the Albania of Enver…

Saskia Vogel reflects on her years of rereading and translating Linnea Axelsson's "Ædnan" and considers how readers, texts, and translations shift and evolve over time.