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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Hmm, I think there is certainly land in the UK still owned by the same family/organisation as it was 500 years ago.
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I am sure there is, but there is also an awful lot of land that has changed hands in that period of time. In fact, I suspect that more has changed hands by mechanisms other than inheritance or sale than has changed hands by those mechanisms.
And if you go to other countries where the nobility was abolished, or which had major wars fought, I think you will find the percentage of ownership retention is even smaller.
Besides, there is a key difference between copyright and physical property. If I sell a piece of physical property, it is gone from my control. If I sell a book, well with copyright, it is still under my control.
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Bill