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Through the late 17th century, a government-sanctioned printing monopoly was held by the Stationers' Company, "the ancient London guild of printers and booksellers". M. Rose, Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright 4 (1993); see L. Patterson, Copyright in Historical Perspective ch. 3 (1968).
In the 40 years since the court handed down its ruling, there has not been another instance of officially sanctioned prior restraint to keep an American newspaper from printing secret information on national security grounds.
While calling the new version Oprah's Book Club 2.0, Ms. Winfrey will resuscitate many of the familiar markers of its first incarnation, including the sticker on the jacket of print books that proudly designates the title as sanctioned by Ms. Winfrey.
The reason may well lie in Arab insistence on hand copying of the Qurʾān (Arabic printing of the Qurʾān does not appear to have been officially sanctioned until 1825).
Protesters also occupied a government printing press in a bid to stop the government formally publishing the new law sanctioning the austerity.
It criticised the News of the World and the Pictorial for printing "material that was grossly lewd and salacious", but had no punitive sanctions.
Canon law sanctioned slavery.
It was critically sanctioned.
Religion sanctioned his ascendancy.
"The government sanctioned it.
But not sanctioned.
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