Copyright: Forever Less One Day
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The origin of copyright law takes us back to the 1710 and Queen Anne, the Monarch who had just overseen the Unification of England and Scotland into then, brand-new Great Britain. Also on her busy schedule was the Statute of Anne: the very first copyright law. It gave authors control over who could make copies of their books or build on their work a limited time. Later a group of rebellious colonists, thought the Statue of Anne was a good idea, and so copy/pasted it into their own constitution giving congress the power: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors… the exclusive right to their respective Writings”. Basically, copyright is a contract between authors and society: if you promise to make mor...
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The origin of copyright law takes us back to the 1710 and Queen Anne, the Monarch who had just overseen the Unification of England and Scotland into then, brand-new Great Britain. Also on her busy schedule was the Statute of Anne: the very first copyright law. It gave authors control over who could make copies of their books or build on their work a limited time. Later a group of rebellious colonists, thought the Statue of Anne was a good idea, and so copy/pasted it into their own constitution giving congress the power: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors… the exclusive right to their respective Writings”. Basically, copyright is a contract between authors and society: if you promise to make mor...
