In the same century, the invention of movable type and the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 contributed to the birth of the first copyright system in the world.

同一世纪，约翰·谷登堡于1440年前后发明了活字和印刷机，促成了世界上第一个版权制度的诞生。

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The printing press or the art of movable type that would trigger an explosion of Christian civilization, with the Gutenberg revolution in Germany, had been invented centuries earlier by the Chinese, but with no similar effect.

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