Research Catalog

Title

Art and modern copyright : the contested image / Elena Cooper.

Author

Cooper, Elena, 1978-

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xix, 282 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This book is the first in-depth and longitudinal study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts. Exploring legal developments during an important period in the making of the modern law, the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, in relation to four themes - the protection of copyright 'authors' (painters, photographers and engravers), art collectors, sitters and the public interest - it uncovers a number of long-forgotten narratives of copyright history, including views of copyright that differ from how we think today. As well as considering the distinct nature of the contribution of copyright to the history of the cultural domain accounted for by scholars of art history and the sociology of art, this book examines the value to lawyers and policy-makers today of copyright history as a destabilising influence: in taking us to ways of thinking that differ from our own, history can sharpen the critical lens through which we view copyright debates today"--
• "The first in-depth and longitudinal study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts. Exploring legal developments during an important period in the making of the modern law, the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, in relation to four themes - the protection of copyright 'authors' (painters, photographers and engravers), art collectors, sitters and the public interest - it uncovers a number of long-forgotten narratives of copyright history, including views of copyright that differ from how we think today. As well as considering the distinct nature of the contribution of copyright to the history of the cultural domain accounted for by scholars of art history and the sociology of art, this book examines the value to lawyers and policy-makers today of copyright history as a destabilising influence: in taking us to ways of thinking that differ from our own, history can sharpen the critical lens through which we view copyright debates today"--

Series Statement

Cambridge intellectual property and information law

Uniform Title

Cambridge intellectual property and information law.

Subjects

• Copyright > Art
• LAW / Intellectual Property / General
• Great Britain
• Copyright > Art > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Art, copyright and 'authors', 1: 1850-62; 3. Art, copyright and 'authors', 2: 1862-11; 4. Art, copyright and collectors: the wrongs that artists commit; 5. Art, copyright and the face: a nineteenth-century publicity right; 6. Art, copyright and the public interest: galleries, printsellers and 'pirates'; 7. Drawing conclusions: images of art and images of copyright.

Call Number

JFE 18-7258

ISBN

• 9781107179721
• 1107179726

LCCN

2018016110

OCLC

1024236410

Author

Cooper, Elena, 1978- author.

Title

Art and modern copyright : the contested image / Elena Cooper.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge intellectual property and information law

Cambridge intellectual property and information law.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781316846155

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7258