Privilege and Property - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Privilege and Property write by Ronan Deazley. This book was released on 2010. Privilege and Property available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What can and can't be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership - of privilege and property. This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices. The essays reach back to the very material world of craftsmanship and mechanical inventions of Renaissance Italy where, in 1469, the German master printer Johannes of Speyer obtained a five-year exclusive privilege to print in Venice and its dominions. Along the intellectual journey that follows, we encounter John Milton who, in his 1644 Areopagitica speech 'For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing', accuses the English parliament of having been deceived by the 'fraud of some old patentees and monopolizers in the trade of bookselling' (i.e. the London Stationers' Company). Later revisionary essays investigate the regulation of the printing press in the North American colonies as a provincial and somewhat crude version of European precedents, and how, in the revolutionary France of 1789, the subtle balance that the royal decrees had established between the interests of the author, the bookseller, and the public, was shattered by the abolition of the privilege system. Contributions also address the specific evolution of rights associated with the visual and performing arts. These essays provide essential reading for anybody interested in copyright, intellectual history and current public policy choices in intellectual property. The volume is a companion to the digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): www.copyrighthistory.org.
Intellectual Privilege
Intellectual Privilege - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intellectual Privilege write by Tom W. Bell. This book was released on 2014-04-14. Intellectual Privilege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A consensus has recently emerged among academics and policymakers that US copyright law has fallen out of balance. Lawmakers have responded by taking up proposals to reform the Copyright Act. But how should they proceed? This book offers a new and insightful view of copyright, marking the path toward a world less encumbered by legal restrictions and yet richer in art, music, and other expressive works. Two opposing viewpoints have driven the debate over copyright policy. One side questions copyright for the same reasons it questions all restraints on freedoms of expression, and dismisses copyright, like other forms of property, as a mere plaything of political forces. The opposing side regards copyrights as property rights that deserve—like rights in houses, cars, and other forms of property—the fullest protection of the law. Each of these viewpoints defends important truths. Both fail, however, to capture the essence of copyright. In Intellectual Privilege, Tom W. Bell reveals copyright as a statutory privilege that threatens our natural and constitutional rights. From this fresh perspective come fresh solutions to copyright’s problems. Published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Privilege and Property
Privilege and Property - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Privilege and Property write by Ronan Deazley. This book was released on 2010. Privilege and Property available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "What can and can't be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership--of privilege and property. This volume conceives a new history of copyright law as fifteen leading academics discuss the changing state of intellectual property across time and between countries"--Publisher's description.
Areopagitica
Areopagitica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Areopagitica write by John Milton. This book was released on 1890. Areopagitica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Servant to Savant
From Servant to Savant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Servant to Savant write by Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden. This book was released on 2022. From Servant to Savant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction -- Part I. Musical Privilege. Legal Privilège and Musical Production ; Social Privilège and Musician-Masons -- Part II. Property. Private Property : Music and Authorship ; Public Servants ; Cultural Heritage : Music as Work of Art ; National Industry : Music as a "Useful" Art and Science -- Postlude : A "Detractor" Breaks his "Silence" -- Conclusion : Privilege by Any Other Name.
