The notion of the author as the creator and therefore the first owner of a work is deeply rooted both in our economic system and in our concept of the individual. But this concept of authorship is modern. Mark Rose traces the formation of copyright in eighteenth-century Britain--and in the process highlights still current issues of intellectual property. Authors and Owners is at once a fascinating look at an important episode in legal history and a significant contribution to literary and cultural history.
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[An] elegant and concise study. (John Sutherland London Review of Books )
Serves as a model of how literary theory can breathe new life into a well-known and perhaps even fashionable subject by endowing it with conceptual discipline. (Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 )
An elegant book; stylishly written, pleasingly designed and meticulously documented and researched. (Jane Dorner Times Higher Education Supplement )
[Rose's] erudite book is not a practitioner's manual nor an exposition of modern copyright law, but is a valuable contribution to the history and philosophy of copyright. (William L. Hayhurst Canadian Business Law Journal )
Serves as a model of how literary theory can breathe new life into a well-known and perhaps even fashionable subject by endowing it with conceptual discipline. (Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 )
An elegant book; stylishly written, pleasingly designed and meticulously documented and researched. (Jane Dorner Times Higher Education Supplement )
[Rose's] erudite book is not a practitioner's manual nor an exposition of modern copyright law, but is a valuable contribution to the history and philosophy of copyright. (William L. Hayhurst Canadian Business Law Journal )
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Mark Rose is Director of the University of California at Irvine Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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strange changes, prepublication right, proprietary authorship, printing patents, authorial property, authorial rights, printing privileges, perpetual copyright, statutory copyright, press regulation, copyright term Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
House of Lords, Statute of Anne, King's Bench, Lord Mansfield, Battle of the Booksellers, Court of Session, Literary Property Determined, Paradise Lost, The Regime of Regulation, The Seasons, Member of Parliament, Lord Camden, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, Licensing Act, Making Copyright, House of Commons, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Yates, The Spectator, Parlement of Paris, Cases of the Appellants, Morning Chronicle, John Milton, Archaeologia Philosophica, William Blackstone New!
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strange changes, prepublication right, proprietary authorship, printing patents, authorial property, authorial rights, printing privileges, perpetual copyright, statutory copyright, press regulation, copyright term Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
House of Lords, Statute of Anne, King's Bench, Lord Mansfield, Battle of the Booksellers, Court of Session, Literary Property Determined, Paradise Lost, The Regime of Regulation, The Seasons, Member of Parliament, Lord Camden, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, Licensing Act, Making Copyright, House of Commons, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Yates, The Spectator, Parlement of Paris, Cases of the Appellants, Morning Chronicle, John Milton, Archaeologia Philosophica, William Blackstone New!
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