@EU_Commission
Well, European authorities certainly did not believe books were "an incomparable good" at the beginning. European authorities then, as now, tried desperately to regulate the new medium of print, appointing censors, banning and burning books and authors as well as printers (i.e., platforms), holding intermediaries responsible. I look forward to the EU of the year 2600 celebrating .
(I write about this in my book: gutenbergparenthesis.com/

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