At 12:01 PM 6/19/2001 +0100, Ken Brown wrote: >Steve Schear posted: > >[...] > > > ================================================ > > From http://webserver.law.yale.edu/censor/samuelson.htm > >[...] > > > Far more harmonious was the relationship between > > copyright and censorship in that era. Men burned at the stake for writing > > texts that were critical of the Crown or of established religion. The > > stationers' copyright regime was part of the apparatus aimed at ensuring > > that these texts would not be printed or otherwise be widely accessible to > > the public. > >Which men, in England, were burned at the stake for "burned at the stake >for writing >texts that were critical of the Crown"? > >Decapitated maybe, but not burned at the stake... definite revisionist >history in the making here. You'll have to take this up with Pam, as this was quoted from her material. steve
