> If 'money was not involved' then Shakespeare, Michelangelo et. al. would not have made most of their works. Yes, but wasn’t their model one of patronage rath

> If 'money was not involved' then Shakespeare, Michelangelo et. al. would not have made most of their works. Yes, but wasn’t their model one of patronage rather than “intellectual property”? William Shakespeare predated the Statute of Anne, Britain’s first copyright law, by one hundred years.