Pre-Common Law. Copyright, Performing Rights & Licensing

 

An obsolete meaning of  the word annotation is marking out an era using chronological notation (OED). This  is  the intention of this work, i.e., to chronologically mark out the pre-Common Law era of copyright and performing rights. It was an era  different yet similar to our post-Common Law  world. Questions of content and censorship, technological and cultural change, access to information and monopoly are some of the temporal  threads stitching the two together.