Literary copyright reform in early Victorian England : the framing of the 1842 Copyright Act /

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Talfourd's first Copyright Bill was presented in 1837, and the public and Parliamentary controversy it provoked is reflected in contemporary pamphlets, correspondence, and hundreds of petitions presented to Parliament, as well as in the changing aims of the bill itself. In addition to the expec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seville, Catherine
Autor Corporativo: Great Britain
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cambridge studies in English legal history.
Temas:
Great Britain. > Copyright Act 1842.
Copyright Act 1842 (Great Britain)
1800-1899
Copyright > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Droit d'auteur > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Copyright
Great Britain
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • The 1842 Act
  • passage and position
  • Copyright
  • its nature and history
  • Talfourd and his aims
  • Conflicting rationales
  • Alternatives to copyright
  • a profession of authorship?
  • 2. Petitions and Copyright
  • Petitioning
  • parliamentary history and background
  • Petitions
  • forms and formalities
  • Petitions
  • volume and subjects
  • 3. Critics in Parliament
  • The radical nexus
  • Political cross-currents
  • Brougham
  • Macaulay
  • 4. Critics in the Book Trade I: Print Workers and their Allies
  • Printers
  • The dispute spreads
  • journeymen 1839-40
  • The process of diffusion
  • 5. Critics in the Book Trade II: Publishing and Publishers
  • The book trade and authors
  • Cheap publications
  • the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
  • Cheap publications
  • the book trade
  • Cooperation and organisation
  • The campaign against the bills
  • 6. The Campaign in the Daily Press
  • London dailies
  • Evening papers
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Authors and the Beginnings of Authors' Organisations
  • Southey
  • Wordsworth
  • campaign manager
  • 8. The Making of the Case for the Bill
  • Petitions
  • those in favour
  • The argument in the periodicals
  • 9. Conclusion
  • App. I. Chronology of the bills
  • App. II. Successive versions of the bill
  • App. III. The Copyright Act 1842.

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