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Originally Posted by Zyber
Gideon, care to show where this copyright notice is?
The text in German says nothing about copyright. 
A quick translation into English
Please show where this hidden copyright notice is. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
Quote:
The Statute of Anne had a much broader social focus and remit than the monopoly granted to the Stationers' Company. The statute was concerned with the reading public, the continued production of useful literature, and the advancement and spread of education. The central plank of the statute is a social quid pro quo; to encourage "learned men to compose and write useful books" the statute guaranteed the finite right to print and reprint those works. It established a pragmatic bargain involving authors, the booksellers and the public.[9] The Statute of Anne ended the old system whereby only literature that met the censorship standards administered by the booksellers could appear in print. The statute furthermore created a public domain for literature, as previously all literature belonged to the booksellers forever.[10]
According to Patterson and Lindberg, the Statute of Anne:
"... transformed the stationers' copyright - which had been used as a device of monopoly and an instrument of censorship - into a trade-regulation concept to promote learning and to curtail the monopoly of publishers... The features of the Statute of Anne that justify the epithet of trade regulation included the limited term of copyright, the availability of copyright to anyone, and the price-control provisions. Copyright, rather than being perpetual, was now limited to a term of fourteen years, with a like renewal term being available only to the author (and only if the author were living at the end of the first term)."[10]
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you have to understand the law of the time to understand how a declaration of a publisher was the copyright notice.
any if you understand the law of the time you know that public domain was actually created BY the statute of ANNE
which is the exact opposite of what Robbie was trying to argue.