Was it the printers? I thought it was the church trying to crack down on the publication of the wrong variant of the Bible. Even if it was the printers, they w

Was it the printers? I thought it was the church trying to crack down on the publication of the wrong variant of the Bible. Even if it was the printers, they weren't copyright holders at the time because there was no such thing as copyright before the law was passed. That aside, it would be the authors that were there copyright holders, not the printers. Copyright has always been about middle-men trying to control the flow of information. If it has benefitted content creators, it has done so only incidentally--because censorship laws are hard to stomach without a little sweetener.