'No Copyright Law' The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion?'Read this - it’s fascinating and highly provocative – for did Germany ‘experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law’? and was the establishment of copyright law in Great Britain in 1710 responsible for stifling knowledge and progress? If further interested, read also: 'The Statute of Anne' which is now seen as the origin of copyright law.
