Thus the Opera kept my piece and defrauded me of the recompense for which I had surrendered my rights in it… — Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thus the Opera kept my piece and defrauded me of the recompense for which I had surrendered my rights in it. Between the weak and the strong, this would be called robbery; between the strong and the weak, it is simply called the appropriation of what belongs to one’s neighbour.
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