George Psalmanazar, a blond-haired man with blue eyes, convinced English intellectuals that Jesuit priests had kidnapped him from the savage island of Taiwan.
This week's hoax over his supposedly continued existence pales in comparison to what the comic accomplished at the height of his powers.
The Obama administration is cracking down on copyright infringement. But as a new book argues, this country has a long history of flexible intellectual property laws.
America's copyright laws are a mess. Why they're broken and what can be done to fix them so they promote creativity.