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A comment on Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks. Parent comment

Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by einpoklum on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:49AM (#21851706)
> and are entitled to do with it as they like.

Of course they are. But we are entitled to do the same with the copies of it.

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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by SteveGoob on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:55AM (#21851733)
> ...we are entitled to do the same with the copies of it.

No, that's not how copyright works.

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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by einpoklum on Saturday December 21, 2019 @01:09PM (#21852490)
Copyright was a conspiracy of English book printers in the 18th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne

It's amazing that some people consider it legitimate today still.

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