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On the origin of the right to copy : charting the movement of copyright law in eighteenth-century Britain (1695-1775) /
Taking as its point of departure the lapse of the Licensing Act 1662 in 1695, this book examines the lead up to the passage of the Statute of Anne 1709 and charts the movement of copyright law throughout the eighteenth century, culminating in the House of Lords decision in Donaldson v Becket (1774)....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [U.K.] ; Portland, Ore. :
Hart Pub.,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Taking as its point of departure the lapse of the Licensing Act 1662 in 1695, this book examines the lead up to the passage of the Statute of Anne 1709 and charts the movement of copyright law throughout the eighteenth century, culminating in the House of Lords decision in Donaldson v Becket (1774). The established reading of copyright's development throughout this period, from the 1709 Act to the pronouncement in Donaldson, is that it was transformed from a publisher's right to an author's right; that is, legislation initially designed to regulate the marketplace of the bookseller and publisher evolved into an instrument that functioned to recognise the proprietary inevitability of an author's intellectual labours. The historical narrative which unfolds within this book presents a challenge to that accepted orthodoxy. The traditional analysis of the development of copyright in eighteenth-century Britain is revealed as exhibiting the character of long-standing myth, and the centrality of the modern proprietary author as the raison d'être of the copyright regime is displaced. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 261 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847310385 1847310389 1280814039 9781280814037 9786610814039 6610814031 9781472563064 1472563069 |