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Originally Posted by corroonb
The first copyright law was for 14 years. Reasonable really.
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When Don Quixote was first published (1605), it was granted a "royal privilege" (as was any other book legally published), meaning that only the author, or the publisher designed by him, had the right to print and sell the book. This privilege lasted
10 years.
That would be a
printing patent, I guess.