It's worth mentioning, too, that even though U.S. Copyright law was established in 1790, it was not extended to other works (and enforced rather sporadically) for nearly a century, because the majority of Anglophone cultural production was NOT American. Charles Dickens even famously lobbied Congress to stop piracy of his works by American presses and Congress basically told him to STFU because pirating British novels was extremely PROFITABLE for the fledgling American presses. Hell, Ben Franklin was what we would now call a print pirate.
The strength and strictness of American copyright law - including it's now ridiculous term extensions - is directly correlated to America's rise as a cultural exporter.
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The strength and strictness of American copyright law - including it's now ridiculous term extensions - is directly correlated to America's rise as a cultural exporter.