Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by laumars on Friday September 14, 2018 @03:33AM
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The copyright law introduced during the invention of the printing press is nothing like the copyright law we know today.
Back then ideas were still believed to be free so the point of copyright law was just a short term reward for the author. A bit like how patents are supposed to work.
I would normally post some citations here (like a famous quote about copyright from one of the British monarchs) but on phone about to drop kids off at school so apologies there.
Europe has a long history of doing such things when confronted with new, disruptive technologies: the effort to license printing presses in various European countries is what eventually led to copyright law as we know it today.