"No text selections can be copied from this book to the clipboard... No printing is permitted on this book... This book cannot be lent or given to someone else... This book cannot be given to someone else... This book cannot be read aloud." - From the "permissions" that accompany Alice in Wonderland, as published by Adobe in its downloadable .pdf format. Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll in 18XX, has long since passed into the public domain.
"Obviously sme protection of copyrighted material will, and should be, built into code. But the p[wer to perfectly control the use of copyrihted material should not. The keywill be to find a balance. And when companies like adobe clearly signal that their effor is to find a balance, they deserve the benefit of the doubt." - Lawrence Lessig, The Industry Standard, March 27, 1001