stackyFACTSBefore 1710, plagiarism wasn't a crime; it was practically a business model.
Before 1710, plagiarism wasn't a crime; it was practically a business model. The Statute of Anne was passed in Britain to finally stop publishers from just stealing whatever authors wrote and printing it without paying them. It gave authors a fourteen-year exclusive right to their own work, fundamentally shifting the concept of creativity from 'community storytelling' to 'this is my intellectual property and I want my money.'
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