VINCENT was born in Gaul, and, like many of his contemporaries, after having lived in the world, felt drawn to the greater strictness of the religious life. VINCENTIUS LIRINENSIS FOR THE ANTIQUITY AND UNIVERSALITY OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH AGAINST THE PROFANE NOVELTIES OF ALL HERETICS. Early Fathers, English, Internet Archive, Patristic's related theme Vincentius Lirinensis for the antiquity and universality of the Catholic faith against the profane novelties of all heretics. The writings of the early Christians of the 2nd century : namely, Athanagoras, Tatian, Theophilus, Hermias, Papias, Aristides, Quadratus, etc. With the exception of Justin Martyr, the Sibylline Books, the Uncanonical Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, and the Legends of Early Martyrs, all the writings which belong to the second century are comprised in this volume. Still, it must not be supposed that the Christian writings of the second century are very numerous. But, when the first progress of the new religion had been made, the Christian society naturally turned their attention to write as well as to teach a literature then begun to grow which was destined to occupy in the end quite as much of the world s attention as the classics of Greece and Home. It is not surprising that for seventy years from the crucifixion, whilst the first disciples were busy in teaching, few would think of writing about what occupied so momentous a place in the course of their daily life. THE second century of the Christian era, though abounding in deviations from the simplicity of primitive faith and practice, yet presents a more inviting field of inquiry to the student of Christian literature, which may in fact be said then to begin. LATE FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD. Just by writing words down you now control what millions of people can do with their actual property.ATHENAGORAS, TATIAN, THEOPHILUS, HERMIAS, PAPIAS,ĬOLLECTED TOGETHER AND FIRST TRANSLATED COMPLETE If anything anti-copying laws are theft because they control what you do with your own property (hard dive). These professions always existed but needed to support themselves like other artists by actually performing. The production and distribution is not nearly costless. They could perform 1 time and due to recording technology this could be replayed by millions of people at low cost.īut that time is over. During this time this natural monopoly allowed professions like actors, artists, authors, and musicians to spawn incredibly wealthy celebrities. People are easily confused because for 100 years media technology has existed that made it easy to play but expensive to share and copy. Otherwise we wouldn't have the Bible would we? Copyright is a government monopoly not a natural property right.īooks existed long before copyright. The physical book is property the content is not which is why governments had to set up a whole different structure to support it. You are confusing the physical book and the content. Please consider writing to your congressmen in four years to oppose it.ĮDIT: Apologies, somehow I was using the terms of the Copyright Act of 1976, not the Copyright Act of 1998.
The next copyright extension act is due in 2018. Chesterton's Father Brown) become the property of all writers, to make whatever art they wanted to. Disney, a major copyright lobbyist, will do almost anything to prevent Mickey from becoming a public domain character like Sherlock Holmes.Īt the same time, imagine how much brilliant culture we could have if more major characters (such as G.K.
As a result, no work written after 1923 has entered the public domain, and the public domain has been frozen there for decades.ġ923 is a critical year, because Mickey Mouse's first short, "Steamboat Willie", was released in 1928. Every 20 years, the major corporations lobby to have it extended by another 20 years.
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Under current law, it is for the entire life of the author, plus 50 75 years (or 75 95 years if published by a corporation). Books are only under copyright for a certain number of years - like 50 or something
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