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Originally Posted by Zyber
Gideon, are you high? Your post is total madness.  Nowhere in that text you highlighted does it even mention Germany.
How can you reach such insane conclusions? That is impossible! 
Your text still talks only about the laws in Great Britain, and has nothing to do with the laws in Germany.
I think I will have to agree with Robbie...  |
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Originally Posted by iseeyou
According to wikipedia, even after the statute of Anne, the stationers company continued to have a legal monopoly to register (or not register) books in 18century Great Britian. If the stationers company refused to accept your book into their registry, then you received no copyright enforcement in Great Britian, unless you could compel/force them to register your book. This is my interpretation from the very limited info on wikipedia.
Gideon, you really should research old German copyright law if you want to know the truth about the historical copyrights of old German books (in Germany of course). Dont just guess and assume it's similar/same as in Great Britian.
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you two need to learn a little history for countries outside the united states
German inventor Johannes Gutenberg "invented" the printing press in 1440
1446 Gutenberg prints the "Poem of the Last Judgment"
1448 Gutenberg prints the "Calendar for 1448"
1450 Gutenberg' formed a partnership with the wealthy Johann Fust
1450 Gutenberg begins work on a Bible, the first is 40 lines per page.
1452 Gutenberg begins printing the 42-line Bible in two volumes.
1454 Gutenberg prints indulgences (notes sold to Christians by the Pope, pardoning their sins)
1455 First block-printed Bible, the Biblia Pauperum, published in Germany.
1455 Gutenberg completed work on what is estimated to be 200 copies of the Bible
the process did expand across all of europe, with kings and queens using it to print their messages to their subjects.
the process also allowed disedents and heretics to publish their works as well and as a result the stationers monopoly was created as a result of the laws that were designed to criminalize the unauthorized publication.
germany was the first to establish such laws, which only make sense since the technology was born in that country.
The problem was that this monopoly which prevented work from being published unless the stationers authorized it created an economic serfdom amoung authors. Rather then stationers competing against each other to pay authors the most money for the right to publish a book, they colluded with each other to keep royalties as low as possible
The statute of ANNE, was drafted to solve that problem, educators would rather teach then publish because of that monopoly. The act was designed from the very begining to create lit public domain.
while britian was the first to enable such a law, with educators, moving and publishing their works in brittian to gain the benefit of such ideal, other countries were forced to follow suit or lose the intelectual capital.
i believe germany was the 7 country to adopt similar statutes.