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Speech on the Copyright Bill (5 Feb 1841) - Macaulay, Thomas Babington | WIST Quotations
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a…