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work_w6gefjam6jhiteyypdivv45piq	Simon Stern	'Room for One More': The Metaphorics of Physical Space in the Eighteenth-Century Copyright Debate	2012	39	.pdf	application/pdf	19527	1432	66	Keywords: copyright law / property / real estate / land / Alexander Pope / Samuel Richardson / view could plausibly be derived from the Statute of Anne, but was not readily apparent from a reading of the statute.22 The booksellers had good reasons for trying to define the debate over copyright protection in terms that statute, as they had expected, its limited term of copyright protection suggests that other concerns—involving the rights of authors and the reading sanction a magazine editor for reprinting the text of Johnson's Rasselas verbatim, except for the author's "moral reflections."50 A satire on the contemporary literary scene, published a few years later, urbanely defends writers once.71 Yet despite this emphasis on the inexhaustible abundance of the literary economy, the Letter from an Author undermines its own argument, invoking the technicalities of land law to argue that copyright "is a Monopoly in	./cache/work_w6gefjam6jhiteyypdivv45piq.pdf	./txt/work_w6gefjam6jhiteyypdivv45piq.txt