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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Copyright didn't exist until governments brought it into being.
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This is not true, copyright has existed for thousands of years and can be directly attributed to Roman law, where (amongst others) a
vindicatio usus fructus could be invoked by both the 'naked'-owner and the current owner against third parties that used it without consent. There was actually a complete set of tools that could be used against these kind of wrong-do'ers.
Roman law was the law that seeded the idea that there was a difference between ownership law, property law and intellectual property law, whereas in countries that follow French law (continental Europe, amongst others) there are only 2 flavors: ownership law and property law
So I don't really expect a conclusion to this discussion, considering there are multiple correct answers
