difficult to make a direct connection, and because the ongoing debate over both has led to radically different interpretations of each nation's law. Similarly, Belgium took no direct influence from the Statute or English copyright theory, but Joris Deene of the University of Ghent identifies an indirect influence "at two levels"; the criteria for what constitutes copyrightable material, which comes from the work of English theorists such as Locke and Edward Young, and the underlying justification of copyright law. In Belgium, this justification is both that copyright serves the public interest, and that copyright is a "private right" that serves the interests of individual authors. Both theories were taken into account in Donaldson v Beckett, as well as in the drafting of the Statute of Anne, and Deene infers that they subsequently affected the Belgian debates over their first copyright statute. In the United States, the Copyright Clause of the United States Constitution and the first Federal copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790, both draw on the Statute of Anne. The 1790 Act contains provisions for a 14-year term of copyright and sections that provide for authors who published their works before 1790, both of which mirror the protection offered by the Statute 80 years previously. See also Licensing of the Press Act 1662 Copyright Act 1911 Copyright Act 1956 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Copyright law of the United Kingdom Common law copyright References Bibliography External links Images and transcription of the Statute of Anne, as published 1710 the Statute of Anne on The History of Information. the entry on the Statute of Anne in William F. Patry's Copyright Law and Practice. Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1710 United Kingdom copyright law Copyright legislation Repealed Great Britain Acts of Parliament Library law History of copyright law