- Do copyright laws help or hinder culture? Playwright Charles Mee addresses the question repeatedly in his work – all of his plays include text appropriated from another source, and all of them are available for free over the web. “The greatest plays in human history – those by the ancient Greeks and Shakespeare – would never have been written had copyright laws existed to keep the authors from borrowing from the culture around them.” – NPR 08/21/00 [Real audio file]
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