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| | Knowledge King - Statute of Anne |
 | | The Statute of Anne was the first British copyright law, enacted in 1709 and entering into force in 1710. |
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http://www.knowledgeking.net/encyclopedia/s/st/statute_of_anne.html
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| | One.2 |
| | Prior to the Statute of Anne, or the Copyright Act of 1709, printed matter wascontrolled via the Licensing Act which allowed authorities to prohibitpublication of anything "dangerous." The Licensing Act, repealed in 1694,mandated all books be licensed by registering them with the Company ofStationers. | | | The Statute of Anne was not intended as a copyright protection act, but as atrade-regulation act. | | | American copyright includes: State copyright statutes, a constitutionalprovision, the federal copyright act of 1790, and the precedent setting case ofWheaton v. |
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http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/dissertation/Chapter2.html
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| | Open source licensing, Part 1: The intent |
| | The British Parliament's Statute of Anne was enacted April 10, 1710. | | | Today, nearly 300 years after the Statute of Anne was passed into law, the same fundamental tenets of copyright remain, and the rights of an author prevail as an essential impetus to create new works. | | | So, beginning with the Licensing Act of 1662, improved by the Statute of Anne in 1710, and further clarified by the case of Donaldson v. |
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-license/index.html
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| | History |
| | The copyright Act of 1790, which was modeled to be like the Statute of Anne, granted Americans the right to print, re-print, or publish work for the same 14 year period, with the same 14 year renewal policy. | | | The Statute of Anne prevented booksellers from holding monopolies and also created a public domain where works would be available after the copyright expired. | | | If the author was alive at the end of said term, they could apply to renew their copyright for another 14 years. |
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http://www.albany.edu/%7Ebp3657/isp301/pasternak.html
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| | In 1710 however, the Statute of Anne, a milestone in the history of copyright law, was passed. | | | According to the Association of Research Libraries, the Statute of Anne recognized that authors should be the primary beneficiaries of copyright law; it also established the idea that there should be a limited time period on the copyright laws, after which works could pass into public domain. | | | Generally, that statute gives the author—or owner of the original work—the exclusive right and authority to allow others to use or reproduce the copyrighted work. |
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http://www.quickprinting.com/pages/issues/2004/504/feature3.shtml
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| | There were other similarities to the English Statute of Anne, including the requirement that one copy of the work be deposited with the clerk of the local district court, and one copy be delivered to the secretary of state—at the time, Thomas Jefferson—“to be preserved in his office.” What a way to build a library! | | | Some modern critics of the expansion of copyright delight in emphasizing the embarrassing precursor to the Statute of Anne, suggesting that copyright has been forever tainted by the fact that it evolved from what were essentially censorship laws. | | | The preambles in some of the state statutes passed under the Articles of Confederation were even more effusive than their later federal counterpart. |
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http://www.edwardsamuels.com/illustratedstory/isc1.htm
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| | Public Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. T&I no. 177 |
| | In 1709 the first English copyright statute (the "Act of Anne") outlawed the unauthorised reproduction of literary works, and imposed monetary fines payable in equal share or "moeity" to the Crown and the copyright holder, along with compulsory forfeiture and destruction of infringing copies. | | | The division of labour between public and private in the enforcement of intellectual property rights has become somewhat less well defined since, though a public role is clearly entailed by the inclusion of criminal infringement provisions in modern copyright and trademarks legislation. |
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http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10850/20020410/www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi177.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Statute of Anne |
| | The current copyright law of the United Kingdom is based on the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 (the 1988 Act), with later amendments. | | | This is the first copyright act in the world, the British Statute of Anne, from 1710. | | | The Statute of Anne was created with the title of "'an act for the encouragement of learning. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Statute-of-Anne
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| | Intellectual Property:A history of copyright |
| | The passing of the Statute of Anne, which was the first Copyright Act in the world to deal with this issue, introduced two new concepts - an author being the owner of copyright and the principle of a fixed term of protection for published works. | | | It was not until the 1709 Statute of Anne which passed into law on 10th April 1710 that copyright in books and other writings gained protection of an Act of Parliament. | | | Prior to this, disputes over the rights to the publishing of books could be enforced by common law. |
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http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/std/resources/copyright/history.htm
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| | Copyright law of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The modern concept of copyright originated in Britain in 1710 with the Statute of Anne. | | | As with other such copyrights, if the author is not an EEA national and the country of origin is not an EEA state, then the duration statutes of the country of origin apply provided it does not exceed UK length. | | | Various amendments have been made to the original statute, mostly originating from European Union directives. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Kingdom
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| | [Upd-discuss] Statute of Anne |
| | Beckett (1774) court case, the law recognized authors' natural copyright as common law but decided that the 1710 Copyright Act supplanted this right with a statutory one.[5]" "As I mentioned in my introduction, the Statute of Anne in 1710 did not mark an instantaneous shift in attitudes toward authorship and artistic creation. | | | At its birth, copyright was lobbied for and <<< designed to benefit publishers alone." <<< From: Collaborative Literary Creation and Control *** "Copyright first emerged in England as a response to the printing press. |
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http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/upd-discuss/2004q3/000678.html
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| | Copyright in a Frictionless World |
| | The initial period of protection afforded by copyright to an author by the Statute of Anne was between 14 and 28 years. | | | Interestingly, if the right to make copies is a property right it is arguable that some copyright statutes could be constitutionally invalid in that they remove a right to copy from citizens without providing any compensation and vest them in authors or publishers as the case may be. | | | It is not surprising therefore that this period was witness to a rash of private suits bought in relation to books arguing that there existed a common law copyright in relation to works [39]. |
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http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_9/scott
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| | Patry: England and the Statute of Anne |
| | 26 Because of the Statute of Anne’s historical importance to the development of United States copyright laws, some of its provisions are worth noting. | | | While the Statute of Anne seemed straightforward, the Stationers nevertheless contended that their former perpetual rights had not been taken away, but rather that the Act merely enabled them to obtain summary remedies against piracy. | | | The question of whether the Stationers’ protection was perpetual or limited by the terms set forth in the Statute of Anne thus remained. |
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http://digital-law-online.info/patry/patry2.html
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| | JEP: Authors' Rights |
| | The 1710 Statute of Anne, our first formal copyright law, left printers the dominant power in relations between printers and authors. | | | In my observation, most academic writers have an imperfect understanding of the copyright statutes, but regularly act in accord with an inalienable common law ownership right they believe, or wish to believe, they have. | | | Beckett, which affirmed the public domain created by the 1710 statute by denying common law claims to the perpetual protection of intellectual property. |
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http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-02/bennett.html
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| | Law Professors' Amici Brief in NY MPAA DeCSS Case (Jan. 26, 2001) |
| | In 1709, Parliament enacted the first modern copyright law, the Statute of Anne, which vested a fourteen-year statutory copyright in authors. | | | Because patents and copyrights are statutory rights, and because monopolies are disfavored, the limits inherent in the Clause's carefully chosen language must be strictly observed. | | | Undeterred, the publishers sought a judicial declaration that this statutory copyright merely supplemented a preexisting natural law copyright that authors could assign to publishers in perpetuity. |
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http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010126_ny_lawprofs_amicus.html
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| | Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog |
| | The UK Parliament set the precedent for Copyright law in the Statute of Queen Anne that defended authors from rapacious publishers, and which has served as the basis for global copyright law ever since. | | | It is an attempt to recreate through technological fiat the publishers' dominance, at the expense of both readers and authors, that the Statute of Anne, and subsequent UK copyright laws, were created to fight. | | | Many can and do reject DRM contracts, which is why DRM proponents resort to subterfuge and laws attempting to restore the kind of monopoly control of publication the Statute of Anne abolished. |
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http://epeus.blogspot.com
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| | RELATOR - definition of RELATOR in Legal |
| | In this country, even where no statute similar to that of Anne prevails, informations are allowed to be filed by private persons desirous to try their rights, in the name of the attorney general, and these are commonly called relators; though no judgment for costs can be rendered for or against them. | | | At common law, strictly speaking, no such person as a relator to an information is known; he being a creature of the statute 9 Anne, c. | | | A rehearser or teller; one who, by leave of court, brings an information in the nature of a quo warranto. |
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http://legal.laborlawtalk.com/RELATOR
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| | Statute of Anne |
| | The Statute of Anne is the British copyright law enacted in 1710. | | | The little monkey would sit upon the other's. |
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http://www.termsdefined.net/st/statute-of-anne.html
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| | 17 (1705), is contained in the provision of the statute that uncooperative debtors would 'suffer as a felon without the benefit of clergy,' the eighteenth-century term of art for the death penalty. | | | Nevertheless, a number of debtors were in fact executed under the Statute of Anne. | | | This is not, of course, to suggest that all debtors who were the least bit uncooperative were executed. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~mhclaw/trivia.htm
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| | Copyright Infringement in the Digital Age: a Case for Law Reform |
| | The court noted that at common law copyright was considered a natural right, but that the Statute of Anne in 1710 abolished that view in favor of a statutory system. | | | In sum, the Court rejected the natural rights view. |
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http://www.andrewwatters.com/copyright/Digital_Copyright_Infringement.html
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| | October 2003 |
| | http://www.copyrighthistory.com/ - site devoted to the history of copyright - a copy of the Statute of Anne may be seen there. |
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http://www.centa.com/CEN-TAPEDE/october21-2003.htm
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| | New York Daily News - Ideas & Opinions - Anne Liske: Lift statute on rape? Yes |
| | These are the criminals who have never paid the penalty for the violent crime they committed. | | | All contents © 2006 Daily News, L.P. Disclaimer and Copyright Notice | | | This is why Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is calling for an end to the 10-year statute of limitations. |
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/309643p-264979c.html
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| | Mike Linksvayer » Perpetual copyright ends, 1774 |
| | The curious story of how perpetual copyright survived until 1774, 64 years after the Statute of Anne limited the duration of monopoly publishing rights to 14 years with one optional renewal is told in chapter 6, “Founders” of Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture. | | | (Failing to obtain legislative copyright extension, publishers argued that common law copyright was perpetual, obviating the statute.) | | | I am learning just how much early British copyright law kept the price of literature high, and kept books out of public hands. |
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http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/09/18/perpetual-copyright-ends-1774
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| | The Avalon Project : The Statute of Anne; April 10, 1710 |
| | Provided always, That after the expiration of the said term of fourteen years, the sole right of printing or disposing of copies shall return to the authors thereof, if they are then living, for another term of fourteen years. | | | The Avalon Project : The Statute of Anne; April 10, 1710 |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/eurodocs/anne_1710.htm
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| | Copyright, digital data, and fair use |
| | [3] The first copyright statute was the English Statute of Anne of 1710. | | | Printing presses that had made it possible to manufacture multiple copies of books in far less time and with far less expense than had previously been possible were the technology that gave rise to the perceived need for a copyright law. |
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http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/conf/ae/en/samuelson.html
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| | Planet eBook - eBooks Community - The Second Gutenberg - Interview with Michael Hart |
| | In 1710&; the Statute of Anne copyright made it illegal for any but members of the ancient Stationers' Guild to use a Gutenberg Press. | | | Then, in 1909, the US doubled the term of all copyrights to eliminate "reprint houses" who were using the new steam and electric powered presses to compete with the old boy publishing network. | | | Each such phase has been stifled by making it illegal to use new technologies to copy texts. |
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http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=376
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| | Bad Faith Fair Use |
| | A small victory for fair use was won yesterday in a Second Circuit Court of appeals. | | | "Fair use is not a doctrine that exists by sufferance, or that is earned by good works and clean morals; it is a right--codified in § 107 and recognized since shortly after the Statute of Anne--that is "necessary to fulfill copyright& very purpose, ‘[t]o promote the Progress of science and the useful arts. |
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http://news.oreillynet.com/pub/n/2786
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| | Massive Change: The Future of Global Design |
| | Then along came the Statute of Anne, which was designed to promote education and learning by limiting copyright to 14 years. | | | They were a monopolist group that restricted the spread of knowledge by keeping prices of books high. | | | Its effect was to basically tell the Congor that their government-granted monopolies would be over, and they would have to compete in the marketplace if they wanted to continue to prosper. |
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http://www.massivechange.com/LawrenceLessig.html
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| | Copyright: It's for the public good |
| | As a specific statutory right, though, it is relatively recent; the first English copyright law, the Statute of Anne, was passed in 1710, about 95 years after Shakespeare's death. | | | Shakespeare, whose works are so well known, yet whose texts exist in so many versions, furnishes an instructive example of the perils of authorship before copyright. | | | Today that doesn't seem very remarkable; we hardly give it a thought. |
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http://www.aaupnet.org/aboutup/copyright.html
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| | Intellectual Property, Moral Rights, and Trading Regimes |
| | The desire of society to hold someone accountable for what was made public, especially in an age of mechanical reproduction of writing, had much to do with the formulation of the 1709 Statute of Anne, the formal beginning of Anglo-Saxon copyright law. | | | This latter category is not distinguished by statute from industrial design. | | | There are three classes of trademarks: ordinary marks distinguishing the wares or services of a single firm; certification marks indicating that the wares or services meet a defined standard; and distinguishing guise marks that give the product a unique ornamental shape or package. |
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| | IPTAblog: 20 Questions with Judge Birch |
| | That clause together with the complementary free speech clause of the First Amendment stand as a bulwark in protecting the free flow of ideas in a free society. | | | Copyright was born out of censorship in England and the response to that censorship, the statute of Anne, was incorporated into our Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8). | | | Copyright places limits on what, where and when citizens may read, see and hear. |
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http://www.iptablog.org/2003/10/07/20_questions_with_judge_birch.html
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| | After all, the author's copyright has been with us at least since the Statute of Anne in 1710, and law enforcement has been effective — at least in Western countries — at preventing illegal copies from circulating and therefore at preserving fair prices for entertainment products. | | | Financial compensation for the artist is possible only if the community accepts an external set of rules that allow the definition of a "price" as a second-hand representation of the work that went into recording the song. | | | The difference in the New Economy is that the risk of making and distributing illegal copies is approaching zero, as is the cost. |
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http://www.sheldonpacotti.com/demiurge/preface.htm
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| | Copyrights & Para-sites |
| | Pressured by growing private commercial interests, the British government gradually gives up its copyright control to authors and publishers. | | | The Statute of Anne is the first statute to recognize the rights of authors. | | | Authors win the exclusive right, renewable after 14 years, to publish their new works. |
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http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/students/medley/timeline.htm
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| | A Conversation on the Future of E-Learning - Stephen Downes |
| | I wonder whether the framers of the Statute of Anne could have forseen the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. | | | I wonder whether they would have worded it differently had they taken more heed to the longer term consequences. | | | It is something that could have lasting consequences. |
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http://www.downes.ca/files/oehlert.htm
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| | Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. - Additional Guidance on the Application of the Minnesota Whistleblower Statute |
| | Both the plaintiff and defense bar have closely monitored court interpretations of Minnesota's Whistleblower statute, Minn. Stat. | | | One of the unsettled questions under this statute was whether an employee or former employee, who claims to have been discharged for having complained of sexual harassment, can maintain both a reprisal claim under the Minnesota Human Rights Act and a claim under the Whistleblower Act on the same facts. | | | In May of last year, the Minnesota Court of Appeals, in a case involving allegations that an individual was terminated for having complained of sexual harassment, ruled that an individual could indeed maintain a reprisal claim under the Minnesota Human Rights Act and simultaneously maintain a claim for a violation of the Whistleblower statute. |
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| | billingsgazette.com |
| | Anne Stanback, president of Love Makes a Family and an advocate for same-sex marriage, said though she wished the vote would have resolved the issue of gay marriage, she was pleased with the outcome. | | | Several Republicans who spoke in favor of the amendment said they've received hundreds of e-mails and letters in recent weeks from constituents, including many with religious ties, demanding that civil unions be defeated and that marriage be defined in statute. | | | Rell said she would prefer the marriage definition was in the legislation, but would not say she would veto the bill if it weren't. |
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http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/08/build/nation/84-conn-union-bill.inc
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| | Statute of Anne - Psychology Central |
| | It created a 21 year term for all works already in print at the time of its enactment and a 14 year term for all works published subsequently. | | | The Statute replaced the monopoly enjoyed by the Stationer's Company granted in 1556 during the reign of Mary I which after several renewals expired in 1695. | | | Authors themselves were excluded from membership in the company and could not therefore legally self-publish, nor were they given royalties for books that sold well. |
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http://www.grohol.com/psypsych/Statute_of_Anne
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| | Jane Austen Clubs |
| | One witness only is necessary to prove the offence before a justice of the peace, who forfeits ten pounds if he neglects his duty. | | | this statute is farther enforced, and its deficiencies supplied; and if any person be convicted, upon information or indictment, of winning or losing ten or twenty pounds within twenty-four hours, he shall forfeit five times the sum. | | | By the 8th statute of George I. the keeper of a faro-table may be prosecuted for a lottery, where the penalty is five hundred pounds. |
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| | DMCA du Canada |
| | The Statute of Anne, or more formally An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Author's [sic] or Purchasers of Such Copies 8 Anne, c. | | | Letter by Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 13 August 1813, against copyright as a natural right. |
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| | Pesce Late to the Game, Still Thoughtful: Corante > Copyfight > |
| | Lots of music and other content was produced for tens of thousands of years before there was a Statute of Anne, let alone DRM and the DMCA, so it seems likely that consumers benefit maximally if there is zero copyright law whatsoever. | | | Consumers benefit from cheaper/free access to content, to the extent that this doesn't stop more content being produced. | | | In the US, they may actually be eligible to enter the public domain soon ;P) Artists benefit from some weak protections, but they don't benefit from anti-filesharing activity. |
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http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/05/18/pesce_late_to_the_game_still_thoughtful.php
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| | World War 1 and 2 - Jacob Tonson |
| | Jacob Tonson, 18th-century British publisher best known for having obtained a copyright on the plays of William Shakespeare by buying up the rights of the heirs of the publisher of the Fourth Folio after the Statute of Anne went into effect. | | | He was also evidently the founder of the famous Kit-Kat Club. | | | World War 1 and 2 - Jacob Tonson |
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http://www.worldwardiary.com/history/Jacob_Tonson
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