Copyright law and the public interest in the nineteenth century /
Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public. While much academic work, both historical and contemporary, has been done on the authorship side of the equation, this book examines the notion of public interest,...
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart,
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Copyright, history, the public
- Copyright before the nineteenth century
- Copyright, the book trade and the reading public
- Extension and expansion
- Examination and internationalisation
- Infringement at common law : drawing copyright's boundaries
- The making of the 1911 Imperial Copyright Act
- Conclusion.
