@article{41653,
      recid = {41653},
      author = {Deazley, Ronan and Kretschmer, Martin and Bentley, Lionel},
      title = {Privilege and Property : Essays on the History of  Copyright /},
      pages = {438 pages},
      note = {This resource was extracted from the Directory of Open  Access Books (DOAB)},
      abstract = {What can and can’t be copied is a matter of law, but also  of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying,  and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it,  evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship,  of authorship and ownership—of privilege and property.This  volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has  its roots in a wide range of norms and practices. The  essays reach back to the very material world of  craftsmanship and mechanical inventions of Renaissance  Italy where, in 1469, the German master printer Johannes of  Speyer obtained a five-year exclusive privilege to print in  Venice and its dominions. Along the intellectual journey  that follows, we encounter John Milton who, in 1644 accused  the English parliament of having been deceived by the  ‘fraud of some old patentees and monopolizers in the trade  of bookselling’ (i.e. the London Stationers’ Company).  Later revisionary essays investigate the regulation of the  printing press in the North American colonies as a  provincial and somewhat crude version of European  precedents, and how, in the revolutionary France of 1789,  the subtle balance that the royal decrees had established  between the interests of the author, the bookseller, and  the public, was shattered by the abolition of the privilege  system. Some of the essays also address the specific  evolution of rights associated with the visual and  performing arts.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/41653},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0007},
}