Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law

Edited by Isabella Alexander, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui, Lewis and Clark Law School, US

'This Research Handbook is a great overview for readers new to the subject of copyright history.' --Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice'`Anyone remotely involved or interested in how the law of copyright has developed in our new IT age will find this book a magnificent journey through special parts of our common law history. . . Academics researching copyright law, authorship, art, and the book and music trades we know will find this title an invaluable resource for their work. It will also be of use to practitioners and the judiciary with an interest in the doctrinal history of copyright law which is so well set out here and another example of the excellent publications produced for lawyers from Elgar for their research handbooks in intellectual property series of legal works.'--The Barrister Magazine

• Contents:1. IntroductionIsabella Alexander and H. Tomás Gómez-ArosteguiPART I HISTORIOGRAPHY2. Copyright History in the Advocate’s ArsenalBarbara Lauriat3. Law, Aesthetics and Copyright Historiography: A Critical Reading of the Genealogies of Martha Woodmansee and Mark RoseKathy Bowrey4. The ‘Romantic’ AuthorMartha WoodmanseePART II UNITED KINGDOM PERSPECTIVES5. The Stationers’ Company in England before 1710Ian Gadd6. The Anatomy of Copyright Law in Scotland before 1710Alastair J. Mann7. Literary Property in Scotland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesHector MacQueen8. Music Copyright in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century BritainNancy A. Mace9. How Art Was Different: Researching the History of Artistic CopyrightElena Cooper10. Determining Infringement in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Britain: ‘A ticklish job’Isabella Alexander11. Equitable Infringement Remedies before 1800H. Tomás Gómez-ArosteguiPART III INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES12. Proto-Property in Literary and Artistic Works: Sixteenth-Century Papal Printing PrivilegesJane C. Ginsburg13. British Colonial and Imperial CopyrightCatherine Seville14. The Public International Law of Copyright and Related RightsSam Ricketson15. El Salvador and the Internationalisation of CopyrightJose BellidoPART IV NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES16. United States Copyright, 1672–1909Oren Bracha17. ‘Cabined, Cribbed, Confined, Bound In’: Copyright in the Australian ColoniesCatherine Bond18. Aspects of French Literary Property Developments in the Eighteenth (and Nineteenth) CenturiesFrédéric Rideau19. Codified Anxieties: Literary Copyright in Mid-Nineteenth Century SpainJose BellidoIndex