- Paperback: 190 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; 1995 edition (Aug 11 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0674053095
- ISBN-13: 978-0674053090
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #145,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[An] elegant and concise study.
--John Sutherland (London Review of Books )
Serves as a model of how literary theory can breathe new life into a well-known and perhaps even fashionable subject by endowing it with conceptual discipline. (Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 )
An elegant book; stylishly written, pleasingly designed and meticulously documented and researched.
--Jane Dorner (Times Higher Education Supplement )
[Rose's] erudite book is not a practitioner's manual nor an exposition of modern copyright law, but is a valuable contribution to the history and philosophy of copyright.
--William L. Hayhurst (Canadian Business Law Journal )
--John Sutherland (London Review of Books )
Serves as a model of how literary theory can breathe new life into a well-known and perhaps even fashionable subject by endowing it with conceptual discipline. (Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 )
An elegant book; stylishly written, pleasingly designed and meticulously documented and researched.
--Jane Dorner (Times Higher Education Supplement )
[Rose's] erudite book is not a practitioner's manual nor an exposition of modern copyright law, but is a valuable contribution to the history and philosophy of copyright.
--William L. Hayhurst (Canadian Business Law Journal )
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The notion of the author as the creator and therefore the first owner of a work is deeply rooted both in our economic system and in our concept of the individual. But this concept of authorship is modern. Mark Rose traces the formation of copyright in eighteenth-century Britain--and in the process highlights still current issues of intellectual property. Authors and Owners is at once a fascinating look at an important episode in legal history and a significant contribution to literary and cultural history.
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This review is from: Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Hardcover)
In current high technology, there has arisen the open source movement. One of its motivating chants is that "information wants to be free". But what about copyright, not just of source code, but of writings in general? The distributed nature of the Internet and the ease of exact digital copying has led to an undergoing reexamination of what copyright might mean in our time.This book helps by giving a historical perspective as to how copyright gained its current meaning. Rose traces copyright to the early 1700s. Which, in the history of civilisation, is relatively recent. Copyright revolves around the concept of author and authorial rights, which emerged then. Surprisingly to some, Shakespeare himself could never have claimed copyright of his writings, even if the concept had occurred to him. Most of his stories were not his original plots, but a brilliant rephrasing of plots handed down from the Middle Ages. Rose traces the development of copyright to the rise of a mass market for printed books. Because without a printing press, copyright is irrelevant, for there is little of material substance to levy royalties. book.
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