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The copyright wars : three centuries of trans-Atlantic battle

Title
The copyright wars : three centuries of trans-Atlantic battle / Peter Baldwin.
Author
Baldwin, Peter, 1956-
Publication
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]

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Book/TextNo restrictions JFE 16-8785Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
535 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Peter Baldwin explains why the copyright wars have always been driven by a fundamental tension. Should copyright assure authors and rights holders lasting claims, much like conventional property rights, as in Continental Europe? Or should copyright be primarily concerned with giving consumers cheap and easy access to a shared culture, as in Britain and America? --Publisher's description.
Subject
  • Copyright > Europe > History
  • Copyright > United States > History
  • Copyright
  • Urheberrecht
  • Europe
  • United States
  • Europa
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-512) and index.
Contents
Introduction : The agon of author and audience -- The battle between Anglo-American copyright and European authors' rights -- From royal privilege to literary property : a common start to copyright in the eighteenth century -- The ways part : copyright and authors' rights in the nineteenth century -- Continental drift : Europe moves from property to personality at the turn of the century -- The strange birth of moral rights in Fascist Europe -- The postwar apotheosis of authors' rights -- America turns European : the battle of the booksellers redux in the 1990s -- The rise of the digital public : the copyright wars continue in the new millennium -- Conclusion : Reclaiming the spirit of copyright.
Call Number
JFE 16-8785
ISBN
  • 9780691161822 (hardcover)
  • 0691161828 (hardcover)
LCCN
2013049603
OCLC
865543996
Author
Baldwin, Peter, 1956- author.
Title
The copyright wars : three centuries of trans-Atlantic battle / Peter Baldwin.
Publisher
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-512) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-8785
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