Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law (Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property series)

There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin and of intellectual property law. The study of copyright history, in particular, has grown remarkably in the last twenty years, with a flurry of activity in the last ten. This Handbook takes stock of the field of copyright history as it stands today, as well as examining potential developments in the future. The contributions feature copyright and history experts from across the UK, Australia, the United States, France, Spain and Italy. Covering European, US and international copyright history and traversing from the 16th Century to the early 20th century, this book offers a broad survey of the field and a solid foundation for future research. Students and scholars of copyright law, authorship, art, and the book and music trades will find this book to be an invaluable resource. It will also be of use to practising lawyers and judges with an interest in the doctrinal history of copyright law.--Résumé de l'éditeur Front Matter......Page 2 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 10 Contributors......Page 12 1. Introduction......Page 14 PART I HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 18 2. Copyright history in the advocate’s arsenal......Page 20 3. Law, aesthetics and copyright historiography: A critical reading of the genealogies of Martha Woodmansee and Mark Rose......Page 40 4. The ‘romantic’ author......Page 66 PART II UNITED KINGDOM PERSPECTIVES......Page 92 5. The Stationers’ Company in England before 1710......Page 94 6. The anatomy of copyright law in Scotland before 1710......Page 109 7. Literary property in Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries......Page 132 8. Music copyright in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain......Page 152 9. How art was different: Researching the history of artistic copyright......Page 171 10. Determining infringement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain: ‘A ticklish job’......Page 187 11. Equitable infringement remedies before 1800......Page 208 PART III INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 248 12. Proto-property in literary and artistic works: Sixteenth century papal printing privileges......Page 250 13. British colonial and imperial copyright......Page 281 14. The public international law of copyright and related rights......Page 301 15. El Salvador and the internationalisation of copyright......Page 326 PART IV NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 346 16. United States copyright, 1672–1909......Page 348 17. ‘Cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in’: Copyright in the Australian colonies......Page 385 18. Aspects of French literary property developments in the eighteenth (and nineteenth) centuries......Page 404 19. Codified anxieties: Literary copyright in mid-nineteenth century Spain......Page 436 Bibliography......Page 457 Index......Page 484 There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin and of intellectual property law. The study of copyright history, in particular, has grown remarkably in the last twenty years, with a flurry of activity in the last ten. This Handbook takes stock of the field of copyright history as it stands today, as well as examining potential developments in the future.The contributions feature copyright and history experts from across the UK, Australia, the United States, France, Spain and Italy. Covering European, US and international copyright history and traversing from the 16th Century to the early 20th century, this book offers a broad survey of the field and a solid foundation for future research.Students and scholars of copyright law, authorship, art, and the book and music trades will find this book to be an invaluable resource. It will also be of use to practising lawyers and judges with an interest in the doctrinal history of copyright law.Contributors: I. Alexander, J. Bellido, C. Bond, K. Bowrey, O. Bracha, E. Cooper, I. Gadd, J.C. Ginsburg, H.T. Gómez-Arostegui, B. Lauriat, N.A. Mace, H. MacQueen, A.J. Mann, S. Ricketson, F. Rideau, C. Seville, M. Woodmansee There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin and of intellectual property law. The study of copyright history, in particular, has grown remarkably in the last twenty years, with a flurry of activity in the last ten. This Handbook takes stock of the field of copyright history as it stands today, as well as examining potential developments in the future. The contributions feature copyright and history experts from across the UK, Australia, the United States, France, Spain and Italy. Covering European, US and international copyright history and traversing from the 16th Century to the early 20th century, this book offers a broad survey of the field and a solid foundation for future research. Students and scholars of copyright law, authorship, art, and the book and music trades will find this book to be an invaluable resource. It will also be of use to practising lawyers and judges with an interest in the doctrinal history of copyright law.--Résumé de l'éditeur Publisher's description: There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin and of intellectual property law. The study of copyright history, in particular, has grown remarkably in the last twenty years, with a flurry of activity in the last ten. Crucial to this activity has been a burgeoning focus on unpublished primary sources, enabling new and stimulating insights. This Handbook takes stock of the field of copyright history as it stands today, as well as examining potential developments in the future