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Originally Posted by nekokami
Well-said! (And welcome to Mobileread!)
Is that right? The Statute of Anne dates to approximately 1709, well after the introduction of movable type in Europe (1436-1450). I wasn't aware that copyright had ever been used to refer to manual copies.
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Certainly the gutenberg press predates copyright but I was referring to people copying text for the purpose of including it in their own documents, not publishing. Educators are well aware that that copyright has an affect in how much they can extract from a document in a research paper for example. Even people quoting the Bible in a modern version are subject to how much they can quote.
Dale