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Where did copyright come from? Given its curious nature, it is not readily apparent from whence it came. Unlike criminal justice, which has a very intuitive purpose and can be traced back through the mists of time to the natural law of pre-history, copyright appears to be a counter-intuitive artifact of medieval political wrangling and propaganda control. Although we ultimately have Johannes Gutenberg and his moveable type to thank for the creation of copyright, the precursor of copyright law as we know it first appeared in Britain in the fifteenth century. The issue of copyright arose in response to Gutenberg's disruptive technology infiltrating the British Isles. The printing press represented a supreme threat to the clergy's monopoly on idea dissemination; moveable type was the fifteenth century version of Napster. The technology that enabled the ability to copy and mass-produce books created an immediate need for its own subjugation.

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