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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Actually no. In 1523 the Spanish king granted a 20 year copyright (which included destruction and specific penalties for each unauthorized printed copy) to one of the men who sailed with Magellan. This came at the request of the writer, who sold about 1000 copies and made a handy sum of money on the deal.
And there were much earlier examples in China where they had printing presses centuries before the Europeans did.
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Do you think that copyright can only exist when the technology for easy copying also exists? To put it another way, can an oral fiction be copyrighted?
I would be interested in links to your references, so that I may copy them onto my Kindle and read them later.