Copyright Law: Volume I: The Scope and Historical Context (The Library of Essays on Copyright Law)
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Copyright Law: Volume I: The Scope and Historical Context (The Library of Essays on Copyright Law)
Copyright Law: Volume I: The Scope and Historical Context (The Library of Essays on Copyright Law)

Copyright Law: Volume I: The Scope and Historical Context (The Library of Essays on Copyright Law)

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Benedict Atkinson (Author) Brian Fitzgerald (Contributor)  

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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.
Benedict Atkinson is Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Brian Fitzgerald is Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
  • Contributor: Benedict Atkinson
  • Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • ISBN13: 9780754628378
  • Number of Pages: 596
  • Packaged Dimensions: 169x244mm
  • Packaged Weight: 1393
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2011-12-14
  • Series: The Library of Essays on Copyright Law
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Benedict Atkinson is Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Brian Fitzgerald is Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

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