[Info-vax] HTTP/2 stole my Applet

[Craig A. Berry]

On 6/22/16 5:25 AM, lawrencedo99 at gmail.com wrote:

> As I like to keep pointing out, if William Shakespeare were to try to
> make a living today, he would be sued into penury. There was no
> copyright in his day; he lifted plots and characters wholesale from
> others, and others copied from him.

That's more or less plausible. There were laws governing publication
(which Shakespeare never did) and performance, but not copyright as such.

 > Yet he still was successful
> enough to provide for two wives in his will.

He famously left his "second best bed" to his wife, but there was no
mention of a second wife.