The copyright wars : three centuries of trans-Atlantic battle / Peter Baldwin.
Peter Baldwin explains why the copyright wars have always been driven by a fundamental tension. Should copyright assure authors and rights holders lasting claims, much like conventional property rights, as in Continental Europe? Or should copyright be primarily concerned with giving consumers cheap...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Physical Description: | 535 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : The agon of author and audience
- The battle between Anglo-American copyright and European authors' rights
- From royal privilege to literary property : a common start to copyright in the eighteenth century
- The ways part : copyright and authors' rights in the nineteenth century
- Continental drift : Europe moves from property to personality at the turn of the century
- The strange birth of moral rights in Fascist Europe
- The postwar apotheosis of authors' rights
- America turns European : the battle of the booksellers redux in the 1990s
- The rise of the digital public : the copyright wars continue in the new millennium
- Conclusion : Reclaiming the spirit of copyright.