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1. codetr+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-10-16 14:54:17
Classic Germany
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2. Barrin+J4[view] [source] 2021-10-16 15:34:26
>>codetr+(OP)
yep every time I head to gutenberg.org I'm reminded that it doesn't get any more ironic. The guy was German for gods sake, we invented the printing press and here I am 600 years later getting owned by copyright
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3. thauma+zI[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-10-16 20:10:04
>>Barrin+J4
> The guy was German for gods sake, we invented the printing press

The printing press was hundreds of years old by the time of Gutenberg.

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4. b3orn+gJ[view] [source] 2021-10-16 20:15:22
>>codetr+(OP)
The link works fine for me.
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5. manque+5Y[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-10-16 22:04:03
>>Barrin+J4
Gutenberg making the movable type popular[1] is one of primary reasons Statute of Anne(1710) and copyright was created. It shouldn't be surprising that you are seeing the effects of that.

With movable type printing, the market for books could be widened, suddenly writing and printing presses could go professional, before that it was largely academic. Printers and distributors and writers both became professional and needed their rights balanced and became economically influential enough to get legislature to enact laws to protect both groups.

[1] He was the first in Europe, he didn't invent it first in the world.

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