New technologies have repeatedly disrupted established cultures of communication. It took about two-and-a-half centuries to get the cultures of copyright, the laws of defamation, the conceptions of intellectual property, that reconciled – to some extent – what was done by the arrival of printing.
It took about two-and-a-half centuries to get the cultures of copyright, the laws of defamation, the conceptions of intellectual property, that reconciled what was done by the arrival of printing.