Normally I don't do this sorta thing, but WTF?

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Vatican 'cashes in' by putting price on the Pope's copyright: "For the first time all papal documents, including encyclicals, will be governed by copyright invested in the official Vatican publishing house, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana...Publishers will have to negotiate a levy of between 3 per cent and 5 per cent of the cover price of any book or publication 'containing the Pope’s words'. Those who infringe the copyright face legal action and a higher levy of 15 per cent."

I'm not Catholic, but to me it makes the Pope look like a sellout and it's putting down a rather large iron fist on the media. Exactly how many times has a papal text leaked, anyhow? In any case, this is stupid.