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Originally Posted by Zyber
Hm. Okay, let's take a look at the link you posted..
Ha ha. So Gideon is telling that the laws of Great Britain apply in Germany? 
Just FYI, those are two seperate countries with their own laws. 
Gideon, here is a historical map from 1709. As you can see, just like today, Germany never was part of Great Britain.
Source: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/p...atlas1709.html |
actually moron you might want to read the highlighted portion
the statute of anne changed the default term of copyright
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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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so germany was covered by the old stationers monopoly which is exactly as i said it was.
specifically because it was not part ....