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The author's due : printing and the prehistory of copyright / / Joseph Loewenstein



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Autore: Loewenstein Joseph <1952-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The author's due : printing and the prehistory of copyright / / Joseph Loewenstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
Disciplina: 070.5/0942
070.50942
Soggetto topico: Book industries and trade - England - History
Printing - England - History
Book industries and trade - Law and legislation - England - History
Printing industry - Law and legislation - England - History
Copyright - England - History
Intellectual property - England - History
Authorship - History
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-336) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. The Regulated Crisis of New Media -- II. From Protectionism to Property -- III. The Laughable Term -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The Author's Due offers an institutional and cultural history of books, the book trade, and the bibliographic ego. Joseph Loewenstein traces the emergence of possessive authorship from the establishment of a printing industry in England to the passage of the 1710 Statute of Anne, which provided the legal underpinnings for modern copyright. Along the way he demonstrates that the culture of books, including the idea of the author, is intimately tied to the practical trade of publishing those books. As Loewenstein shows, copyright is a form of monopoly that developed alongside a range of related protections such as commercial trusts, manufacturing patents, and censorship, and cannot be understood apart from them. The regulation of the press pitted competing interests and rival monopolistic structures against one another-guildmembers and nonprofessionals, printers and booksellers, authors and publishers. These struggles, in turn, crucially shaped the literary and intellectual practices of early modern authors, as well as early capitalist economic organization. With its probing look at the origins of modern copyright, The Author's Due will prove to be a watershed for historians, literary critics, and legal scholars alike.
Titolo autorizzato: The author's due  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-53719-9
9786612537196
0-226-49041-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910818758103321
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