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urn:uuid:8c4476de-67ab-47d1-a06f-557fa74ba0e5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:8c4476de-67ab-47d1-a06f-557fa74ba0e5 15 9781906924201 06 10.11647/OBP.0007 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ 01 01 Privilege and Property Essays on the History of Copyright 1 B01 Ronan Deazley 2 B01 Martin Kretschmer 3 B01 Lionel Bently 01 eng 00 454 03 04 K1440 20 Law 10 LAW050010 12 LNRC B2 Material Culture 20 aesthetics 12 HBTB B2 Law 20 cultural studies B2 Law: Intellectual Property 20 John Milton 20 legal history 20 copyright history 20 copyright law 20 creative commons 20 patent 20 intellectual property 20 public domain 20 book history 20 censorship 03 00 <p>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. The volume is a companion to the digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Privilege and Property is recommended in the Times Higher Education Textbook Guide (November, 2010).</p> 04 00 Introduction The History of Copyright History: Notes from an Emerging Discipline by Martin Kretschmer, with Lionel Bently and Ronan Deazley 1. From Gunpowder to Print: The Common Origins of Copyright and Patent Joanna Kostylo 2. ‘A Mongrel of Early Modern Copyright’: Scotland in European Perspective Alastair J. Mann 3. The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright: Areopagitica, the Stationers’ Company, and the Statute of Anne Mark Rose 4. Early American Printing Privileges. The Ambivalent Origins of Authors’ Copyright in America Oren Bracha 5. Author and Work in the French Print Privileges System: Some Milestones Laurent Pfister 6. A Venetian Experiment on Perpetual Copyright Maurizio Borghi 7. Copyright Formalities and the Reasons for their Decline in Nineteenth Century Europe Stef van Gompel 8. The Berlin Publisher Friedrich Nicolai and the Reprinting Sections of the Prussian Statute Book of 1794 Friedemann Kawohl 9. Nineteenth Century Controversies Relating to the Protection of Artistic Property in France Frédéric Rideau 10. Maps, Views and Ornament: Visualising Property in Art and Law: The Case of Pre-modern France Katie Scott 11. Breaking the Mould? The Radical Nature of the Fine Arts Copyright Bill 1862 Ronan Deazley 12. ‘Neither Bolt nor Chain, Iron Safe nor Private Watchman, Can Prevent the Theft of Words’: The Birth of the Performing Right in Britain Isabella Alexander 13. The Return of the Commons – Copyright History as a Common Source Karl-Nikolaus Peifer 14. The Significance of Copyright History for Publishing History and Historians John Feather 15. Metaphors of Intellectual Property William St Clair Bibliography Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20100601 13 15 9781906924195 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0007 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0007.pdf 99 01