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On the Origin of the Right to Copy - Charting the Movement of Copyright Law in Eighteenth Century Britain (1695-1775) (Hardcover, New)
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On the Origin of the Right to Copy - Charting the Movement of Copyright Law in Eighteenth Century Britain (1695-1775) (Hardcover, New)
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Taking as its point of departure the lapse of the Licensing Act
1662 in 1695, this book examines the lead up to the passage of the
Statute of Anne 1709 and charts the movement of copyright law
throughout the eighteenth century, culminating in the House of
Lords decision of Donaldson v Becket (1774). The established
reading of copyright's development throughout this period, from the
1709 Act to the pronouncement in Donaldson, is that it was
transformed from a publisher's to an author's right; instead,
legislation initially designed to regulate the marketplace of the
bookseller and publisher evolved into an instrument that functioned
to recognise the proprietary inevitability of an author's
intellectual labours. The historical narrative which unfolds within
this book presents a challenge to that accepted orthodoxy. century
Britain is revealed as exhibiting the character of long-standing
myth, and the centrality of the modern proprietary author as the
raison d'etre of the copyright regime is displaced, being replaced
with a more nuanced account of legal change driven by complex
interactions between the protagonists, resulting in a copyright
regime which was quite different from that anticipated by the
reformers.
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