Privilege and Property : Essays on the History of Copyright.

Intro -- Privilege and Property -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction. -- 1. From Gunpowder to Print: The Common Origins of Copyright and Patent -- 2. 'A Mongrel of Early Modern Copyright': Scotland in European Perspective -- 3. The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright: Areopagitica, the Stationers' Company, and the Statute of Anne -- 4. Early American Printing Privileges. The Ambivalent Origins of Authors' Copyright in America -- 5. Author and Work in the French Print Privileges System: Some Milestones -- 6. A Venetian Experiment on Perpetual Copyright -- 7. Les formalités sont mortes, vive les formalités! Copyright Formalities and the Reasons for their Decline in Nineteenth Century Europe -- 8. The Berlin Publisher Friedrich Nicolai and the Reprinting Sections of the Prussian Statute Book of 1794 -- 9. Nineteenth Century Controversies Relating to the Protection of Artistic Property in France -- 10. Maps, Views and Ornament: Visualising Property in Art and Law. The Case of Pre-modern France -- 11. Breaking the Mould? The Radical Nature of the Fine Arts Copyright Bill 1862 -- 12. 'Neither Bolt nor Chain, Iron Safe nor Private Watchman, Can Prevent the Theft of Words': The Birth of the Performing Right in Britain -- 13. The Return of the Commons - Copyright History as a Common Source -- 14. The Significance of Copyright History for Publishing History and Historians -- 15. Metaphors of Intellectual Property -- Bibliography -- Index.

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