Is that your book? On content & carriers

Mathias Klang @klangable

Copy as property

The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.

Martialis (40 – 100 ad)

Copy as power

“To every cow its calf and to every book its copy.” Diarmuit Ui Neill,

high king of Ireland (ca 561 AD)

In 561 AD, the High King and Abbot Colmcille engaged in battle on the slopes of Benbulben. Aided by an angel, Colmcille won, thousands of men were slain and the King forced to concede the copy of the psalter to Colmcille.

Copy as Social Good

STATUTE OF ANNE (1710)

Wheras printers, booksellers, and other persons, have of late frequently taken the

liberty of printing... books, and other writings, without the consent of the authors... to their

very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families: For

preventing therefore such practices for the future, and for the encouragement of learned

men to compose and write useful books…

The digital is the original & everything is copy

hollerith

The greatest copy machine

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no copy: content licensed, not sold

What do we own?

”It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern....”

Norwegian case

Impact on culture: what to read

Copy as problem: Information overload

Impact on culture: Saving your library

Privacy

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