Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--88249f-Historical perspective is usef/en

Historical perspective is useful here. Before Thomas Edison, there was no way for culture to be commodity. Every musician, every artist, every creator of anything before Thomas Edison was essentially in the business of doing what we now have go back to doing, except those who lived in a world of goods that could be distributed in print, for whom you only have to step back to before Gutenberg. Right?