On this day, 315 years ago, on April 14, 1710 (March 16, 1710, the 1710 lunar calendar), the British Parliament passed the world's first copyright law, the Anna Act. Anne's Decree: Also known as Queen Anne's Decree. The original name of the Act was "Act Granting Rights to Authors and Buyers in Books Published for a Certain Period of Time to Encourage Intellectual Creation". It was promulgated by the British Parliament in 1709 and came into effect in 1710. It was the first law in the world to protect the rights of authors. The law stipulates that the author of a work enjoys a 14-year copyright protection period from the date of first publication. After the expiration of the period, the author has not passed away, and the copyright protection period can be extended for 14 years. The Anna Act recognized the author as the subject of copyright protection for the first time in the world, established copyright ideas in modern significance, and had a great impact on the subsequent copyright legislation of countries around the world. China is the first country in the world to invent paper and printing, and is therefore one of the countries with the earliest development of publishing in the world. The publishing industry of books, newspapers and periodicals has a long history and rich variety, which not only preserves the splendid culture of ancient China, promotes and promotes the development of ancient China's social history, science and culture, and also shows its own achievements in the history of Chinese publishing, Chinese culture, world publishing and human history. When the Qing Dynasty still invoked the "Qing Laws" to suppress publishing at the end of the 19th century, the world's first copyright law, the Anna Act, was passed by the British Parliament as early as April 14, 1710. 109 years ago, in 1910, the "Qing Copyright Law" was officially promulgated. This is the first copyright law in my country's history, marking that my country's copyright legislation has entered the modern copyright stage in which the author is the copyright owner. Prior to this, my country was at a stage where publishers had "printing privileges" and authors only became original copyright owners. In comparison, due to the early rise of capitalism and the maturity of the market economy, Europe also entered the stage of modern copyright earlier. The symbol was 1710 (300 years ago, 200 years earlier than the promulgation of the Qing Copyright Law)) That is, a copyright bill was passed by the British Parliament and approved by Queen Anna for implementation; so the bill is called the Anna Act.