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Copyright (Statute of Anne)
Britain's Statute of Anne (1710) gives authors, not printers, a limited right to their works.
Open in the interactive tree →Passed after the printing trade's monopoly lapsed, it granted authors 14-year terms, renewable once, to encourage learning. It is the model of modern copyright, whose balance between creators' income and public access is under pressure from the internet and AI training.
Prerequisites
- Printing Press~1450
- Patent System1474
Unlocks
- Open Licences (GPL, CC)1989
- Open Access & Open Science2018-2026Open licences work by building on copyright law
- EU AI Act2024-2028The AI Act obliges general-purpose model providers to respect copyright law