Historian Melodee Beals joins us to discuss a pivotal point in the history of journalism in the nineteenth and early-Twentieth centuries. We look at a system that would cause mayhem in copyright now, and look at how moral questions that our ancestors faced in the past are rearing their heads again in a world dominated by social media. 

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