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Old 11-07-2019, 07:18 AM   #442
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
To expand on my last post in a way possibly more relevant to most readers here:

1710 - Start of English copyright
1719 - First memorable English novel (Robinson Crusoe)

Nine years isn't an exact correlation. It could have been a coincidence. I can't find any evidence Defoe got an advance before writing it
To be a bit picky about it, that wasn't the start of English copyright, that was the start of English copyright where the rights were assigned to the author rather than a favored printer. That is what the big reform was with Queen Anne.
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