Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2230

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Author: Peter Baldwin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691169098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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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 advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute between, for example, the publishing industry and Google is completely new, the copyright wars in fact stretch back three centuries—and their history is essential to understanding today’s battles. The Copyright Wars—the first major trans-Atlantic history of copyright from its origins to today—tells this important story. Peter Baldwin explains why the copyright wars have always been driven by a fundamental tension. Should copyright assure authors and rights holders lasting claims, much like conventional property rights, as in Continental Europe? Or should copyright be primarily concerned with giving consumers cheap and easy access to a shared culture, as in Britain and America? The Copyright Wars describes how the Continental approach triumphed, dramatically increasing the claims of rights holders. The book also tells the widely forgotten story of how America went from being a leading copyright opponent and pirate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to become the world’s intellectual property policeman in the late twentieth. As it became a net cultural exporter and its content industries saw their advantage in the Continental ideology of strong authors’ rights, the United States reversed position on copyright, weakening its commitment to the ideal of universal enlightenment—a history that reveals that today’s open-access advocates are heirs of a venerable American tradition. Compelling and wide-ranging, The Copyright Wars is indispensable for understanding a crucial economic, cultural, and political conflict that has reignited in our own time.

Author: Robert Spoo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199927871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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"Tells the story of how the clashes between authors, publishers, and literary "pirates" influenced both American copyright law and literature itself."--Dust jacket flap.

Author: University of California, Los Angeles. School of Law. Library
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: Brian Fitzgerald
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351570978
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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This volume reproduces writings, social teachings, testimonies and reports of figures as diverse as Karl Marx, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, and bodies such as the US Congress. Extracted material charts the development of an international system of copyright regulation, and the growth, in the 20th century, of copyright industries benefitting from new copyright laws. In the second half of the 19th century, many writers and thinkers, like Marx, attacked capital, and its corollary, property rights. Some writers, such as Victor Hugo, while exposing the horrors of poverty and social alienation, demanded for authors rights of property. The modern system of copyright substantially originates from the efforts of Hugo and others. Articles by leading US copyright scholars such as Jessica Litman and Tim Wu explain the development of copyright law in the 20th century, and are complemented by reproduction of key copyright cases in the US and UK, as well the primary copyright legislation in those countries. Contributors examine critically whether copyright law in the 20th century developed to encourage information dissemination or enable producers to control the supply of information for super profit.

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Edward Waters
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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Author: Herbert Feinstein
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Category : Copyright infringement
Languages : en
Pages : 1008

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