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A Short History of CopyrightPrinting, Reformation and Information Control

A Short History of Copyright: Printing, Reformation and Information Control [From the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, overlapping phenomena—humanism, the Italian Renaissance, the Black Death, the invention of the moveable-type printing press and the Protestant Reformation—began to upend the obligation-based system of property relations. When the plague swept through Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century, killing one-third of the population, it rattled every institution of the medieval world, setting many peasants free from feudal obligations. Traumatized survivors saw that high birth, social status or spiritual rank did not protect a person from the undiscriminating hand of death.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Short History of CopyrightPrinting, Reformation and Information Control

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
ISBN
978-3-319-02074-7
Pages
15 –22
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-02075-4_3
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[From the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, overlapping phenomena—humanism, the Italian Renaissance, the Black Death, the invention of the moveable-type printing press and the Protestant Reformation—began to upend the obligation-based system of property relations. When the plague swept through Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century, killing one-third of the population, it rattled every institution of the medieval world, setting many peasants free from feudal obligations. Traumatized survivors saw that high birth, social status or spiritual rank did not protect a person from the undiscriminating hand of death.]

Published: Aug 28, 2013

Keywords: Sixteenth Century; Copyright Holder; Printing Press; Literary Property; Henry VIII

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