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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:19PM (#34083461)
> Of course the law didn’t exist before it was written, but copying others’ content was viewed as stealing,

But the first copyright laws in Britain gave no rights at all to creators.

They weren’t about moral rights founded in creation of works, the basis of rights was the capital investment of setting up to print the work.

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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by dahart on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:06PM (#34084162)
Right yes, to my broad point here that the law’s whole point was to protect profits, and I agree originally it was publisher’s profits not author’s.
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