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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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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Nothing excessively picky about that, it's a very good point. It's not as if copyright as we know it today came about in a sudden revelation; IP rights have been evolving over a long period of time ... and there's nothing odd about that either, other property rights also evolved over a long period, they just started earlier.