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Who owns the news? : a history of copyright / Will Slauter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slauter, Will, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copyright--News articles--United States--History.
- Copyright.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- You can't copyright facts, but is news a category unto itself? Without legal protection for the "ownership" of news, what incentive does a news organization have to invest in producing quality journalism that serves the public good? This book explores the intertwined histories of journalism and copyright law in the United States and Great Britain, revealing how shifts in technology, government policy, and publishing strategy have shaped the media landscape. Publishers have long sought to treat news as exclusive to protect their investments against copying or "free riding." But over the centuries, arguments about the vital role of newspapers and the need for information to circulate have made it difficult to defend property rights in news. Beginning with the earliest printed news publications and ending with the Internet, Will Slauter traces these countervailing trends, offering a fresh perspective on debates about copyright and efforts to control the flow of news.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Owning News in an Age of Censorship and Monopoly
- Chapter 2. Toward a Culture of Copying in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Chapter 3. Scissors Editors: Cutting and Pasting in Early America
- Chapter 4. Market News and the Limits of Copyright in Nineteenth-Century America
- Chapter 5. Debating Copyright for News in Industrial Britain
- Chapter 6. Press Associations and the Quest for Exclusivity in the United States
- Chapter 7. International News Service v. Associated Press and Its Legacy
- Epilogue. The View from the Digital Age
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes and a Note on Newspaper Sources
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781503607729
- 1503607720
- OCLC:
- 1198929863
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