[cc-community] Resources on the history of the copyleftmovement...
Bodo Balazs
bodo at mokk.bme.hu
Sat Mar 17 16:45:57 EST 2007
At least if you don't count in England John Wolfe, Roger Ward, Robert
Waldegrave, Simon Stafford and the rest of the pirate printers 1580's, Henry
Hills just a few years before the statue of Anne, the Société Typographique
de Neuchâtel in Switzerland, and the rest of the continental publishers who
produced all the contrefacons for the french reading public, Trattner,
Schmieder and the countless South German pirates, who had a central role in
spreading the Enlightement in Europe.
All these people thought (as it turned out rightly) that the royal
privileges (limiting the right to reprint books that for example were
produced ages before print was invented in Europe) are neither permanent nor
automatic. :)
A reading list on these guys:
http://www.warsystems.hu/?p=67
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[mailto:cc-community-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lessig
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 9:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [cc-community] Resources on the history of the
copyleftmovement...
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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