Practice question · True or false
Print culture made the author's name more commercially important than manuscript culture had.
Hints
- Think about who could be paid, and for what, once identical copies existed.
- Copies sold in numbers make a name worth attaching.
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True
Why
True. When every copy was hand-made and variable, the scribe mattered as much as the author and attribution was often loose. Identical printed copies sold in quantity make the name a selling point and eventually a legal property, which is the road to copyright and to the author as owner.
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