Atkinson, Benedict, and Fitzgerald, Brian (2011) Copyright Law Volume I: The Scope and Historical Context. Library of Copyright Essays . Routledge, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

This volume discusses how proprietary notions increasingly dominated copyright legal principles, with consequences for information dissemination in modern times. It covers the period to 1850, and begins with extracts from Roman law and early Christian and medieval teaching on ownership. The volume traces philosophical arguments about copyright law, reproducing writings of John Milton and John Locke on freedom of expression, and copyright justifications supplied by the idealist philosophers Johann Fichte and Immanuel Kant. Readings explain how the developments that created the social and political systems of modern Britain and the United States also produced the beginnings of the modern system of copyright regulation. The volume highlights seminal works of leading US copyright scholars Lyman Ray Patterson, Benjamin Kaplan and Mark Rose, and includes correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison on copyright policy.

Research Statement

Research Background	Explain history of development of copyright using original readings.
Research Contribution	An unparalleled narrative of copyright history explaining the development of copyright history using many original sources.
Research Significance	Provides the student with original and secondary documents constituting a coherent lineal and thematic narrative of copyright history.
Item ID:	57496
Item Type:	Book (Reference)
ISBN:	9780754628378
Keywords:	Copyright History Law Essays
Copyright Information:	© Copyright 2011 Routledge.
Date Deposited:	15 Nov 2024 04:02
FoR Codes:	18 LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES > 1801 Law > 180115 Intellectual Property Law @ 55% 14 ECONOMICS > 1401 Economic Theory > 140101 History of Economic Thought @ 20% 16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1605 Policy and Administration > 160512 Social Policy @ 25%
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