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Copyright and Cartography - History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Copyright and Cartography - History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge (Hardcover)
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This open access book explores the intertwined histories of
mapmaking and copyright law in Britain from the early modern period
up to World War 1, focusing chiefly on the 18th and 19th centuries.
Taking a multidisciplinary approach and making extensive use of the
archival record, this is the first detailed, historical account of
the relationship between maps and copyright. As such, it examines
how the emergence and development of copyright law affected
mapmakers and the map trade and how the application of copyright
law to the field of mapmaking affected the development of copyright
doctrine. Its explorations cast new light on the circulation of
geographical knowledge, different cultures of authorship and
creativity, and connections between copyright law, print culture,
technology, and society. The book will be of interest to legal
historians, intellectual property scholars, and historians of the
map and print culture, as well as those interested in the history
of knowledge and how legal control over data has been exerted over
time. It takes the reader back to the earliest attempts to
establish who can own and control geographical information and its
graphic representation in the form of a map. In so doing, it
establishes a long history of tension between the interests of
private enterprise, government, and the public. The book’s
investigations end in the first decades of the 20th century, but
the tensions it identifies persist in the 21st century, although
today paper maps have been largely replaced by web-based mapping
platforms and digital geospatial data. The eBook editions of this
book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Australian
Research Council.
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