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culture; the root of copyright New York, April 2007  HDV Version
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Interview with Eben Moglen 00:00:06 Well I think I would begin
by putting it this way 00:00:10 The book, which is the first
mass-produced article in western culture, 00:00:15 is really the
beginning of the process of industrialization of information.
00:00:24 The medieval artisan producing or consuming
information, traveling long distances , 00:00:32 confronted with
the difficulty of searching out people possessing specialised
knowledge, 00:00:38 becomes in the space of two generations
only, 00:00:43 the western european world of books, of printed
mass produced artefacts, 00:00:50 that spread knowledge widely,
00:00:53 and make the process of accumulating specialised
knowledge about the world 0