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Re:Digital Berlin wall: How the German prototype for online ... by nine_k on Friday April 29, 2022 @10:06AM (#31205267)
Capitalism somehow existed well before the modern IP rights system.

The US patent office was created in 1832, the UK's, in 1850s, and the modern form of patent laws appeared in 1880s.

Copyright goes all the way to 1660s, but until relatively recently, the terms of copyright were much shorter, and extent, narrower.

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