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You're Dead to Me

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Copyright Law and the Birth of the Novel

With the emergence of copyright law, and also kind of removing the licensing act, there was a whole lot more freedom for newspapers to really grow. celebrity is more or less invented in like, 17 o nine. Like you mentioned long john silver, who, not real. Not real. So he's the celebrityso he was the kim cardashnuses tho take me as in, he fearedof breaking the press. We'll come to that liber later on, atually. But how does he get into piracy? Cause he doesn't start out as a pirate. To see him and he how does a young man go off to sea from bristol? Is it slavery? Is it

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