Authorship and Copyright

First published in 1992, Authorship and Copyright traces the history of constructions of authorship as a legal reality.

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First published in 1992, Authorship and Copyright traces the history of constructions of authorship as a legal reality.

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Preface Introduction 1. Preliminaries: positivities and polemics 2. Early modern law of copyright in England: statutes, courts and book cultures 3. France: from royal privilege to the droit moral 4. German theory: rights of personality 5. English copyright in the nineteenth century: the missing person 6. The USA: a legal republic and a literary industry 7. The internationalisation of copyright and authorship 8. Some cultural issues for legal study 9. Some legal lessons for literary and cultural studies 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index of cases Index