Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
The
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers is one of the
Livery Companies of the
City of London. The Stationers' Company was founded in 1403; it received a
Royal Charter in 1557. It held a monopoly over the publishing industry and was officially responsible for setting and enforcing
copyright regulations until the passage of the
Statute of Anne in 1709.
In 1937, a Royal Charter amalgamated the Stationers' Company and the Newspaper Makers Company, which had been founded six years earlier, into the Company of the present name.
Today, the Company mostly carries out ceremonial functions. Furthermore, it contributes to educational charities. In the order of precedence of the Livery Companies of London, the Stationers' and Newspaper Makers' Company is forty-seventh.
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