Copyright is an intellectual monopoly that opens the door for power concentration, @glynmooyd argued during his his #BookTalk with @mariabustillos, co-hosted by the @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

Do "We now have all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips" as Niskanen Center said ? ^1

I would say not.

It is more like "The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free"^2

We have an abundance of propaganda and commercial speech.

To Lindsey of Niskanen Center's credit, it goes on to say:
"We now have all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips, but the social authority of that knowledge has fallen into embattled retreat while conspiracy theories and mass delusions fill the vacuum."

A timepiece of seventeenth century Germany. A single-sheet item printed in red and black. A broadside drawing on the clock’s ubiquitous presence in early modern culture. Have a closer look at "Horologium Pietatis: Zwölff geistliche Betrachtungen...". #BookHistory

The broadside can be found at UB Erlangen (H61/EINBLATTDRUCK.A-I 35).

Follow me along when we look in detail at this (time)piece.
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Hey #Fediverse, dear #Histodons, let there be more paper among us. This is the start of a series devoted to #PaperHistory - especially but not exclusively to the first European paper era starting around 1400 AD.

Let's start with #schools in early modern Europe. Schools were social spaces of learning and teaching, and above all, paper was present. What you see is an imagined schooling scene from the seventeenth century by Jan Steen. Highlighted are papers. Have a look.
#EarlyModernHistory

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