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Kopimism Ireland

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    #32
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    Spacedog wrote: »
    Considering the blasphemy laws here, Irish Kopimism would prove a potent test for the legal system.

    so we still have blasphemy laws here? great,
    It would mean nobody would be able to criticize or object to kopimism


    so does anyone have any idea of how to go about getting kopimism officially recognized? where do i get the form


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    #33
    cavedave
    Registered Users Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭cavedave


    There is an argument made in How the Irish Saved civilisation that Irish monks love of copying books preserved literacy and the classical cannon is what prevented the dark ages getting pitch black. You can laugh at a copying religion but Irish people copying religion could be an important reason we are able to read now.
    On one occasion when he was at the monastery of Moville he came across Finian's book of the Psalms. Colum Cille decided to copy it secretly. He did, and when he was brought before King Diarmait who was to decide who was the rightful owner of it, Diarmait made his famous decision: “To every cow its calf and to every book its copy”. This might be regarded as the first copyright case in history! Later fighting broke out about the decision. After a battle for it Colum Cille got it back and it has since been known as the 'Cathach' or Battle Book. Colum Cille went into exile as penance and landed in the island of Iona in 563 and there he established his famous monastery


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