Possible Clues:

• Officer requires years just to get protection for work
• Document granting exclusive right to publish
• Protection of intellectual property, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has
• Being modest about page - just a property of the author?
• Avoid transcription errors for author's benefit
• Follow conservatives in control over reproduction
• Sole entitlement to produce literary works
• Protection of original work, imitation being correct
• Behave like Conservatives in control over work
• Protection against piracy - though not a piracy Goth exercised