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You could copy a book, and sell it. This was a big part of the Protestant revolution; the Catholic church didn't want the common people reading the Bible, but b
by logicchains 2y ago
You could copy a book, and sell it. This was a big part of the Protestant revolution; the Catholic church didn't want the common people reading the Bible, but back then they had no legal way to control how people used the printing press.
- steve1977 2y agoThe Bible is not copyrighted. So you could still do that today. Also I‘m pretty sure the catholic church wanted no one to read the Luther Bible. Neither common people nor others ;)