书写、传播成本与作者的独立身份——著作权制度产生之前作品传播略考

通过考察各主要文明的发展历程发现,书写、传播成本在相当程度上决定了作者的身份是否独立,而身份独立则是思想自由的前提.一种文明要想长存,必须降低书写、传播成本,赋予作者独立的身份,使之能够凭借自己的创作而收获财富.著作权制度就是以法律的形式保障了这种独立身份.

Costs of Writing and Dissemination and the Independence of Author's Status:The Dissemination of Works before the Emergence of Copyright System

After researching into the development of ancient civilization,we found that the cost of writing and dissemination determined the author’s status whether independent or not to a large extent,and the independence of the author’s status is the premise of freedom of thought.If one civilization wants to exist forever,it must reduce the cost of writing and dissemination,give the author an independent status to enable him to rely on his own creation to harvest the wealth.The copyright system has safeguarded this independent status through the manner of legal norms.