Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Baldwin, Peter (1956-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The copyright wars [Texte imprimé] : three centuries of trans-Atlantic battle / Peter Baldwin

Publication : Princeton (New Jersey) : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (535 p.) ; 24 cm

Comprend : Introduction : The agon of author and audience ; The battle between Anglo-American copyright and European authors' rights ; From royal privilege to literary property : a common start to copyright in the eighteenth century ; The ways part : copyright and authors' rights in the nineteenth century ; Continental drift : Europe moves from property to personality at the turn of the century ; The strange birth of moral rights in Fascist Europe ; The postwar apotheosis of authors' rights ; America turns European : the battle of the booksellers redux in the 1990s ; The rise of the digital public : the copyright wars continue in the new millennium ; Conclusion: Reclaiming the spirit of copyright.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-512) and index
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. 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? This book describes how the Continental approach triumphed, dramatically increasing the claims of rights holders. It 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

Sujet(s) : Droit d'auteur -- Europe -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Droit international  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691161822. - ISBN 0691161828. - ISBN 9781400851911 (erroné). - ISBN 1400851912 (erroné) (rel.)

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