Leo Tolstoy as the father of anti-copyright

One of the forerunners of Creative Commons was Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy . March 9, 1891, he told his wife about the decision to renounce copyright .

“I give everyone the right to publish free of charge in Russia and abroad, in Russian and in translation, as well as to put on stage all those of my compositions that I have written since 1881 and are printed in the XII volume of my complete works of the 1886 edition , and in the XIII volume, published this year in 1891, is equal to all my works that were not published in Russia and that can reappear after this day ”

Upon learning this, she almost threw herself under the train.
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“She doesn’t understand, and children don’t understand, spending money, that every ruble that they live through and gain by books is suffering, my shame. Let shame, but for what the weakening of the action that the preaching of truth might have. ”

The fight for copyright is partly devoted to the film about Tolstoy "The Last Station" (another name is "The Last Resurrection") by Michael Hoffman , which was released last year.

Details in "Chaskor" , which, by the way, is available under the license of Attribution 3.0 Unported .

^{Note The non-profit organization Creative Commons does not in any way oppose copyright , on the contrary, it follows current copyright laws in every way and it is these laws that help manage copyright with CC licenses.}