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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Not a very detailed graph number wise, but I see it as an increase of about 1/2 billion more books?
With books published prior to 1700 (around 1000 years) being around 500,000,000 (according to graph) and the addition of approximately the same amount in 100 years seems like a spurt to me.
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No, that is just a steady increase. A growth spurt is what happened from the 15th to the 16th century.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
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?
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What does this have to do with what I said? Copyright was made to protect the authors from publishers, not from consumers.