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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