{"id":389,"date":"2002-04-08T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2002-04-09T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/04\/08\/389.html"},"modified":"2002-04-08T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2002-04-09T02:43:08","slug":"historical-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/04\/08\/historical-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2002\/04\/08\/BU140716.DTL&type=tech\">Article in the <cite>San Francisco Chronicle<\/cite><\/a> gives a historical overview of copyright law, in light of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=375\">Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act<\/a>; some interesting stuff I hadn't known before, including the fact that the first US copyright law (in 1790) protected \"only maps, charts and books.\"  There's a lot that I take for granted as just The Way Things Are that's actually a relatively recent development.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article in the San Francisco Chronicle gives a historical overview of copyright law, in light of the new Consumer Broadband&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}