Comments on: Statute of Anne – early copyright lobbying http://www.stefankulk.nl/index.php/112/statute-of-anne-early-copyright-lobbying/ blog by Stefan Kulk Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:31:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stefan http://www.stefankulk.nl/index.php/112/statute-of-anne-early-copyright-lobbying/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Stefan Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:20:17 +0000 http://www.stefankulk.nl/?p=112#comment-51 Also Google is celebrating copyright: "The Statute of Anne changed this system. For the first time, it granted authors rights to their works, and made it so anyone was eligible for a copyright. In this way, early copyright was anti-authoritarian and directly aimed at promoting free expression by shifting power to writers and away from printers and the state." http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/04/celebrating-copyright.html Also Google is celebrating copyright: “The Statute of Anne changed this system. For the first time, it granted authors rights to their works, and made it so anyone was eligible for a copyright. In this way, early copyright was anti-authoritarian and directly aimed at promoting free expression by shifting power to writers and away from printers and the state.”

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/04/celebrating-copyright.html

]]> By: Crosbie Fitch http://www.stefankulk.nl/index.php/112/statute-of-anne-early-copyright-lobbying/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Crosbie Fitch Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:46:36 +0000 http://www.stefankulk.nl/?p=112#comment-48 It is depressing how many people have swallowed the rose tinted history that Statute of Anne put an end to Stationers' Guild depredations and put authors back in the driving seat, that copyright was an empowerment of authors (not simply a pretext to legislate the de facto power the Guild had become accustomed to and lobbied to be restored). Compare: http://themediawonk.com/2010/04/11/digital-britain-and-the-return-of-the-stationers-company/ I do not sympathise with the recasting of copyright as authorial right (as opposed to privilege precisely designed to be wielded by the hand of the publisher) http://www.digitalproductions.co.uk/index.php?id=62 So, I very much agree with your last sentence: "seen as the result of early copyright lobbying that was never in the interest of authors" It is depressing how many people have swallowed the rose tinted history that Statute of Anne put an end to Stationers’ Guild depredations and put authors back in the driving seat, that copyright was an empowerment of authors (not simply a pretext to legislate the de facto power the Guild had become accustomed to and lobbied to be restored).

Compare: http://themediawonk.com/2010/04/11/digital-britain-and-the-return-of-the-stationers-company/

I do not sympathise with the recasting of copyright as authorial right (as opposed to privilege precisely designed to be wielded by the hand of the publisher)
http://www.digitalproductions.co.uk/index.php?id=62

So, I very much agree with your last sentence: “seen as the result of early copyright lobbying that was never in the interest of authors”

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