[Gllug] Regarding priracy (sic)

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:53:40PM +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > Not at all.  The original intent of copyright law (along with patent
> > law) was to coax creators to put their works out in the wild, rather
> > than rely on secrecy, copy protection ("you can read this book, but only
> > by coming to our reading room and paying a fee") and other means to
> > protect their work.
> 
> Actually that is only true in the USA.
> 
> In the UK modern copyright came about when Queen Ann introduced it to
> protect authors from the monopoly held by the printing houses who severely
> abused authors and kept almost all of the profits from their works for 
> themselves - rather like the modern situation in many cases.
> 
> There was certainly no stated aim in the UK to encourage more such works
> although it may have been a consideration.

It's more or less the same thing.  The authors, whose aim was to inform and
entertain, were not reaping the benefits of their wide-spread popularity.

Pete
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