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1474 - The world's first law on copyright. Venice. The law provides that for a certain period of this product can only use this inventor. It was written and the "moral right". As with all laws, not all and not always go smoothly. For example, the great Leonardo, who in those days as a time lived in the city of canals, this law did not dare to use, fearing the church, which did not approve of such innovations.
Prior to this law are usually endowed with the privileges of the author of the ruler. It concerns mainly works of art and authors have treated them ambiguous, like honoring of sin. Say, it is not so and it is against the background of the creation of the Supreme design. so, a piece of knowledge, again, divine.
But the fact of the relationship of advanced European legislators to this issue is very significant. Yes. For more than five hundred years ...
1918 - the United States adopted the Law on Standard Time. The first to understand the urgency of the introduction of standard time, as with the growth of a network of railways had to somehow cause the schedule to a common denominator. Disadvantages in the usual mismatch local time - it would still all right, but the increase in the number of accidents pointed this out very clearly. We establish a single time across the country in the late 19th century. But the idea of dividing the total Sharik into 24 time zones filed Canadian Stanford Fleming. For a reference point taken, it is clear the case, the Greenwich Meridian. This happened in the mid-1880s. Railway companies in the US and Canada were quick to appreciate the beauty of the Standard and quickly it went. Well, after three decades, and Congress decided to hurry up and promoted the Act, the country is divided on the time zones