John Milton in the library

2 works in the library quote John Milton — 2 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

Hugo Grotius 1 citation · Lysander Spooner 1 citation

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1. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   letter ii 2 passages anchored here

   Directly named and quoted in the editorial note.

   Milton speaks of it in Paradise Regained IV, 75:

2. The Law of Intellectual Property Lysander Spooner 1 endorsed 1 citation

   ch. 29

   Milton's words are cited as historical evidence for the prevailing belief in perpetual authorial copyright.

   John Milton, as early as 1644, speaking in behalf of the right of authors to print their thoughts freely without getting a license for each book, alluded to the subject of copyright, and said, “That part [of an order of parliament for licensing books] which preserves justly every man’s copy [right], or provides for the poor, I touch not” [do not object to].