SOC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Worshipful Company Of Stationers And Newspaper Makers, General Idea, Republic Pictures
13 Mar 2019
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Copyright - the exclusive legal right, given to the creator of an original work to print, publish, perform, film, record or otherwise use that work, and to authorize others to do the same. If you have ever recorded an original work, you hold the copyright. Work must be fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Hard drives count as a tangible medium. Most of history no one thinks about copyright when copies are expensive and laborious. 6th century story of st. columba to every cow belongs its calf; to every book its copy . 15th century printing technology develops resulting in copies being much easier to produce. In england, all printing controlled for by one company: stationers" company. Whereas printers, booksellers and other persons have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing, reprinting and publishing published books and other.
