There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin and of intellectual property law. The study of copyright history, in particular, has grown remarkably in the last twenty years, with a flurry of activity in the last ten. This Handbook takes stock of the field of copyright history as it stands today, as well as examining potential developments in the future. The contributions feature copyright and history experts from across the UK, Australia, the United States, France, Spain and Italy. Covering European, US and international copyright history and traversing from the 16th Century to the early 20th century, this book offers a broad survey of the field and a solid foundation for future research. Students and scholars of copyright law, authorship, art, and the book and music trades will find this book to be an invaluable resource. It will also be of use to practising lawyers and judges with an interest in the doctrinal history of copyright law.
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1. Introduction Part I: Historiography - 2. Copyright History in the Advocate’s Arsenal; 3. Law, Aesthetics and Copyright Historiography: A Critical Reading of the Genealogies of Martha Woodmansee and Mark Rose; 4. The ‘Romantic’ Author Part II: United Kingdom Perspectives - 5. The Stationers’ Company in England before 1710; 6. The Anatomy of Copyright Law in Scotland before 1710; 7. Literary Property in Scotland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 8. Music Copyright in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Britain 9. How Art Was Different: Researching the History of Artistic Copyright; 10. Determining Infringement in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Britain: ‘A ticklish job’; 11. Equitable Infringement Remedies before 1800 Part III: International Perspectives - 12. Proto-Property in Literary and Artistic Works: Sixteenth-Century Papal Printing Privileges; 13. British Colonial and Imperial Copyright; 14. The Public International Law of Copyright and Related Rights; 15. El Salvador and the Internationalisation of Copyright Part IV: National Perspectives - 16. United States Copyright, 1672–1909; 17. ‘Cabined, Cribbed, Confined, Bound In’: Copyright in the Australian Colonies; 18. Aspects of French Literary Property Developments in the Eighteenth (and Nineteenth) Centuries; 19. Codified Anxieties: Literary Copyright in Mid-Nineteenth Century Spain Index