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The author's due : printing and the prehistory of copyright / Joseph Loewenstein.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loewenstein, Joseph, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book industries and trade--England--History.
- Book industries and trade.
- Printing--England--History.
- Printing.
- Book industries and trade--Law and legislation--England--History.
- Printing industry--Law and legislation--England--History.
- Printing industry.
- Copyright--England--History.
- Copyright.
- Intellectual property--England--History.
- Intellectual property.
- Authorship--History.
- Authorship.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. The Regulated Crisis of New Media
- II. From Protectionism to Property
- III. The Laughable Term
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-336) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612537196
- 9781282537194
- 1282537199
- 9780226490410
- 0226490416
- OCLC:
- 593356229
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