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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs R. F Kuang NAMED ONE OF THE BESTA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Lively, opinionated, and ultra timely." Louis Menand, The New Yorker A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do. Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are