Pirating Books in the 1600s

Posted by jbperry on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:38PM
from the swanngalleries.com dept.

https://www.swanngalleries.com/news/books/2024/04/a-brief-publishing-history-of-don-quixote/

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Re:Pirating Books in the 1600s by jbperry on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:44PM (#44815229)

Would be interesting to see a good write-up of just how much publishers ripped off other peoples work in these early days.

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Re:Pirating Books in the 1600s by m463 on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @02:06PM (#44815521)

I think the early french film - A Trip to the Moon - was pirated by edison and others in the united states and the original filmmakers didn't make any money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon#Release

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Re:Pirating Books in the 1600s by danlitt on Saturday August 09, 2025 @09:18AM (#44846241)

Very common, many such cases. The reason Hollywood is on the west coast is because it was outside the effective reach of Edison's patents.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Sl4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JmUF...

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