Authors and Owners
The Invention of Copyright
Published on 11. August 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
190 pages
978-0-674-05309-0 (ISBN)
Description
The notion of the author as the creator and therefore the first owner of a work is deeply rooted both in our economic system and in our concept of the individual. But this concept of authorship is modern. Mark Rose traces the formation of copyright in eighteenth-century Britain-and in the process highlights still current issues of intellectual property. Authors and Owners is at once a fascinating look at an important episode in legal history and a significant contribution to literary and cultural history.
Reviews / Votes
[An] elegant and concise study. -- John Sutherland * London Review of Books * Serves as a model of how literary theory can breathe new life into a well-known and perhaps even fashionable subject by endowing it with conceptual discipline. -- Richard Wendorf * Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 * An elegant book; stylishly written, pleasingly designed and meticulously documented and researched. -- Jane Dorner * Times Higher Education Supplement * [Rose's] erudite book is not a practitioner's manual nor an exposition of modern copyright law, but is a valuable contribution to the history and philosophy of copyright. -- William L. Hayhurst * Canadian Business Law Journal *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
None
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05309-0 (9780674053090)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
08/1995
1st Edition
Harvard University Press
€71.99
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Person
Mark Rose is Research Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Content
1. The Question of Literary Property 2. The Regime of Regulation 3. Making Copyright 4. The Author in Court 5. Baffle of the Booksellers 6. Literary Property Determined 7. Property/Originality/Personality 8. Strange Changes Appendix A. Documents Related to Pope V. Curll Appendix B. Justice Nares' Vote in Donaldson v. Becket Works Cited Index