Explosion of knowledge. Was the industrial rise of Germany caused, because copyright was unknown. If your German is not good you might try Google Translate.
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Der Spiegel
You may recall that Eckhard Höffner has been examining the history of copyright in Germany - finding that in its absence there was an explosion of knowledge - that due to the late enforcement of copyright in Germany, Germany emerged from a poor agricultural country in 1800 to the leading science nation in 1900. The German media being more advanced than the U.S. media Der Spiegel,the preeminant German weekly news magazine with a print run of about 1 million, and one of the most widely circulated magazines in Europe has picked up the story.
[Posted at 08/05/2010 11:17 PM by David K. Levine on Was Napster Right? 
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This has now been posted in English: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,710976,00.html
[Comment at 08/19/2010 01:16 AM by Parker Higgins]
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