RE: We're SHUT DOWN by Political Consultant OR Right-Wing Troll

[logiczombie]

Oh, right, AND copyright law was originally conceived to protect INDIVIDUAL CREATORS from MASSIVE CORPORATIONS.

And now it's almost exclusively used to do the exact opposite.

Copyright is de facto censorship.

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[sunlit7]

The history of copyright starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned", was the first copyright statute. Initially copyright law only applied to the copying of books. Over time other uses such as translations and derivative works were made subject to copyright and copyright now covers a wide range of works, including maps, performances, paintings, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures and computer programs.

Debate over.

[logiczombie]

"An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned"

• To protect AUTHORS from PUBLISHERS who might otherwise print their works without permission.

I thought you said attribution links were required when posting excerpts.

Here you go - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright

You must have skimmed over this part, "Copyrights are exclusive rights granted to the AUTHOR or CREATOR of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work."

[sunlit7]

Oh boy the cheetah bot is probably hot on my trial, I'd better what out. lol.

No I didn't skim over any part I was merely showing you copyright wasn't implemented because of massive size corporations.

[logiczombie]

It was designed to protect AUTHORS from PUBLISHERS.

[wikitextbot]

History of copyright
The history of copyright starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned", was the first copyright statute. Initially copyright law only applied to the copying of books. Over time other uses such as translations and derivative works were made subject to copyright and copyright now covers a wide range of works, including maps, performances, paintings, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures and computer programs.