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BE4COPY investigates the historical evolution of printing privileges in Europe from 1470 to 1789, exploring their impact on copyright and the politics of knowledge. The project aims to understand the connections between legal frameworks, trade routes, and political interests in shaping authorship and ownership of intel…
BE4COPY examines the long-term history of printing privileges from a cross-disciplinary and European perspective.
These privileges provided exclusive rights for the production of books and images: they can be considered one of the precursors of what we now call ‘copyrights’.
Introduced around 1470, shortly after the invention of the printing press, privileges were abolished around 1789, when new notions of ownership emerged alongside new ideas about political representation.
The BE4COPY project…
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