[cc-community] Resources on the history of the copyleft movement...
Lawrence Lessig
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Sat Mar 17 11:17:21 EST 2007
You guys are really being too hard on the poor statute of anne. Free
Culture was born with the statute of anne. Before then, at least in
the Anglo world, copyright was said to be automatic, and permanent.
The statute of anne was the first statute affirmatively to create a
public domain.
On Mar 16, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 18:05 +0000, Rob Myers wrote:
>> Terry Hancock wrote:
>>> Fred Benenson wrote:
>>>> I was part of a working group at the Beyond Broadcast 2007
>>>> conference where
>>>> we worked on developing a timeline for Free Culture events.
>>>
>>> So, according to this timeline, free culture begins in *1998*???
>>
>> Free Culture has always been. Unfree culture begins around the
>> time of
>> the Statute of Anne. ;-)
>
> Good thing you included a smiley, or I'd have to point out that
> copyright is only one of many possible restrictions on culture. Oops,
> there I went, pet peeve, sorry.
>
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