| Copyright Law: Volume I: The Scope and Historical Context Contributor(s): Atkinson, Benedict (Author), Fitzgerald, Brian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 075462837X ISBN-13: 9780754628378 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Intellectual Property - Copyright |
| Dewey: 346.048 |
| LCCN: 2010936309 |
| Series: Library of Essays on Copyright Law |
| Physical Information: 596 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume discusses how proprietary notions increasingly dominated copyright legal principles, with consequences for information dissemination in modern times. It covers the period to 1850, and begins with extracts from Roman law and early Christian and medieval teaching on ownership. The volume traces philosophical arguments about copyright law, reproducing writings of John Milton and John Locke on freedom of expression, and copyright justifications supplied by the idealist philosophers Johann Fichte and Immanuel Kant. Readings explain how the developments that created the social and political systems of modern Britain and the United States also produced the beginnings of the modern system of copyright regulation. The volume highlights seminal works of leading US copyright scholars Lyman Ray Patterson, Benjamin Kaplan and Mark Rose, and includes correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison on copyright policy. |