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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I don't think that he realizes that the Renaissance happened before copyright. Now we have a higher number of works per year but if you look at an artist-to-consumer ratio we are lower now (and most artistic works are of lower quality than those from those times).
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Apart from the fact that during the Renaissance most artists relied on support from a few sponsors (and the fact that even at that time they already had copyright for specific books granted on a case by case basis by the king in a number of countries), would you enlighten us how copyright even mattered to the general public before convenient methods of copying the materials were available? In the 1960s how would you get your free books?
Before ebooks, copyright restrictions for books really only mattered to publishers and printers. For music, film, and photography easy access to copies came a little earlier, but we are talking 1-2 decades, not centuries.