As early as 1710, England enacted a copyright law, the Statute of Queen Anne, in response to prominent writers protesting against publishers who pirated and distorted their works.
英國早在西元一七一○年，便因一些依寫作為生的作家向國會抗議，不願再被盜印或扭曲原作，而頒佈安妮法案，開始保護著作權了。