Britain between 17th and 18th centuries witnessed the making of modern copyright Meanwhile, many constitutional affairs stood out, the most important of which is copyright’s change from privilege to private right This change is owning to Parliament’s limit to Emperors’ privileges on one hand, on the other hand, thanks to inner conflict of stationer’s interest Divorce of jurisdiction and governmentgubernaculum provides a solid foundation for justifying the limitations to privileges The House of Lords holds copyright is a statutory right, not a common right Three approaches, ie nature right, incentive policy and fairness, emerged in earlier cases when justifying copyright The formation of modern copyright constitutes a part of political and institutional change of Britain then