The Copyright Wars : : Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle / / Peter Baldwin.

Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright-and its violation-a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Agon of Author and Audience
  • 1. The Battle between Anglo-American Copyright and European Authors' Right
  • 2. From Royal Privilege to Literary Property: A Common Start to Copyright in the Eighteenth Century
  • 3. The Ways Part: Copyright and Authors' Rights in the Nineteenth Century
  • 4. Continental Drift: Europe Moves from Property to Personality at the Turn of the Century
  • 5. The Strange Birth of Moral Rights in Fascist Europe
  • 6. The Postwar Apotheosis of Authors' Rights
  • 7. America Turns European: The Battle of the Booksellers Redux in the 1990s
  • 8. The Rise of the Digital Public: The Copyright Wars Continue in the New Millennium
  • Conclusion: Reclaiming the Spirit of Copyright
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index