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Millar v. Taylor was a landmark case, a victory for London booksellers: Court of King's Bench rules that authors are indeed proprietors of their own works by common-law right, giving booksellers perpetual copyright, as opposed to a shortened term of copyright ownership based on equating authorship of texts to authorship of patents. This case reverses the Statute of Anne, but only temporarily: the ruling was overturned in Donaldson v. Becket |
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