...was mentioned in the Letters page of the Financial Times a couple of days ago.
Was it one of us?
Bob
I stole it from the biography of Saint Columba of Iona. Might be any Scot or Irish history fan...
Given that the Battle of the Book is probably the first documented case of European IP litigation (and one with surprisingly modern arguments) it does tend to get cited quite a bit. Just google: columba copyright. I myself had heard about it well before reading of it in Ars Magica, and indeed initially I had not even realized that Timothy Ferguson's citation was implicit.