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Prior to the first federal copyright act, state law applied. Thus the first protected book in this country was A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean by John Ledyard, registered in Connecticut in 1783.

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The first modern copyright law was the Statute of Anne, in England in 1709. Prior to that, a "copy right" was a printing monopoly used generally for censorship.

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