If the standard for what counts as "copyright law" is "what we would nowadays refer to [as] copyright" then it is of course trivially true that all "copyright"

If the standard for what counts as "copyright law" is "what we would nowadays refer to [as] copyright" then it is of course trivially true that all "copyright" statutes, past, present, or future, share the same purpose as modern copyright. However, more generally the term "copyright" refers to "the right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship"[0], and for that the Licensing of the Press Act qualifies. The Statute of Anne was intended as a modernized replacement for the LPA; it represented an evolution in the concept of copyright away from its origins as a means of censorship and toward a more lenient and democratized commercial model. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/copyright#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/copyright#Noun