LOl, so everybody is now watching original, uncopyrighted home movies and listening to original, uncopyrighted home produced music?
I don't know the details of these specific laws, but every half honest person knows that the owners of copyrighted movies and music are having their rights violated on a massive scale on the internet, and with other methods of illegally copying copyrighted products.
And copyright had its origins in an effort by Government to stop what it called seditious writings. Not too virtuous a birthright, IMO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_of_the_Press_Act_1662
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne