Germany and Its Industrial Rise: Due to No Copyrightby Jeffrey Tucker, Mises Economics BlogAug. 19, 2010 |
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I had known that copyright killed music in Britain in the 18th and 19th century and that the absence of copyright laws in Germany had encouraged its remarkable artistic culture. I had not known that the same is true of books generally. But this article details remarkable new research showing that this was indeed the case. The author of the research in question is Eckhard Hoffner and his book is Geschichte und Wesen des Urheberrechts – not available yet in English. Quoting Speigel: Indeed, only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time — 10 times fewer than in Germany — and this was not without consequences. Hoffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900. |