My New Copyright

From my daily calendar:

Albrecht Durer obtained the very first copyright in a special grant from Emperor Maximilian.  He proclaimed his new right in the 1511 engraving Life of the Virgin,

Hold! You crafty ones, strangers to work, and pilferers of other men’s brains.  Think not rashly to lay your thievish hands upon my works.  Beware!  Know you not that I have a grant from the most glorious Emperor Maximilian, that not one throughout the imperial dominion shall be allowed to print or sell fictitious imitations of these engravings?  Listen!  And bear in mind that if you do so, through spite or through covetousness, not only will your goods be confiscated, but your bodies also placed in mortal danger.

Perhaps I will use that copyright in my next historical. 

How ironic is it if I steal another person’s copyright?