Intellectual property piracy has a long history. Today, American companies lose billions of dollars each year to intellectual property theft. However, it may just be bad karma coming back. Towards the end of the 18th century, Congress passed the Copyright Act of 1790. This law implicitly permitted the theft of foreign works, and this implication was exploited when American authors profited from foreign works by making pass on the written knowledge of others as if it were the case. were theirs. However, to discover the birth of intellectual rights, we must go back to 17th century London, to a historic place known as Stationer's Hall. If an author planned to publish his works, he would make an entry in a 650-page register. This would provide some evidence that the author was the original producer of the published works. The curators of the register attached the greatest importance to their functions. Dating from the 16th century, the book has survived disasters such as the Great Fires of London. Formal meetings were held between prominent booksellers and publishers to establish the authority in which they invested in the register. Unfortunately, this authority vested in the founders of the register will not go unopposed, and medieval politics will soon intervene. In the Middle Ages, no one was to challenge the authority of the king. Even though the power to protect the intellectual thought of writers did not oppose any law decreed by the king at the time, it nevertheless placed a kind of power in the hands of a small faction which was not appointed by the king. king, giving the impression that the founders of the register felt sufficiently empowered to enact their own laws. The ensuing political battle would aim to establish and regulate "minimum standards of fair use for educational purposes." » The 1976 revision of US copyright law would be the last major revision to date. Currently, courts rely on precedent to resolve most disputes. Today, there are many other new statutes and statutes that cover new technologies that were unforeseeable in 1976 and small extensions of tenure. Today, the register that started it all, the Stationers Hall Registry, is housed in the National Archives of the United Kingdom. Its story is still seen today as one of the main reasons for the outbreak of the English Civil War. The fact that civil proceedings could have been initiated by a simple register testifies to the importance of intellectual property rights for society..