| ▲ | logifail 2 hours ago | |
> copyright predates the existence of scientific papers [citation needed] /s "Philosophical Transactions is the world’s first and longest-running scientific journal. It was launched in March 1665 by Henry Oldenburg (c.1619-1677), the Society’s first Secretary, who acted as publisher and editor. " https://royalsociety.org/journals/publishing-activities/publ... "Modern copyright law was invented on April 10, 1710, with the enactment of the Statute of Anne in Great Britain" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright see also the U.S. Copyright Act of 1790: Signed into law by President George Washington on May 31, 1790 and the Berne Convention (1886) | ||
| ▲ | 10111001 an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> "Philosophical Transactions is the world’s first and longest-running scientific journal. It was launched in March 1665 by Henry Oldenburg (c.1619-1677), the Society’s first Secretary, who acted as publisher and editor. " My bad. I edited out a "probably" I shouldn't have, and was writing based on the intuition that there were people working as authors writing plays and the like before you had people working as scientists. | ||