Copyright law and the public interest in the nineteenth century /
Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public. While much academic work, both historical and contemporary, has been done on the authorship side of the equation, this book examines the notion of public interest,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public. While much academic work, both historical and contemporary, has been done on the authorship side of the equation, this book examines the notion of public interest, and the way that concepts of public interest and the rhetoric surrounding it have been involved in shaping the law of copyright. While many histories of copyright focus on the eighteenth century, this book's main concern is with the period after 1774. The nineteenth century was the period during whi. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 320 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781847315649 184731564X 1472565010 9781472565013 |