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Contesting Copyright

A History of Intellectual Property in East Central Europe and the Balkans

Av Augusta Dimou

Del i serien CEU Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe

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The creative sector, including the cultural industry, is key for today’s economy. Copyright has the capacity to fix the roles and tasks of the actors involved and determine the direction of cash flows within this sector. The study of the evolution of copyright helps understand and adjust the regulation and commercialization of creative labor. Augusta Dimou provides a thoroughly researched, interdisciplinary and comparative study of the historical development of copyright regimes in three countries – Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. She examines the function and significance of copyright in the institutionalization, development, and regulation of modern culture in East Central Europe and the Balkans during the diverse political regimes of the modern era, and at the interface between the various nationalization and globalization processes of the 20th century. The bulk of the exposition deals with the first half of the twentieth century with a final chapter providing a summary history of copyright under communism. The author presents the development of copyright in East Central Europe in the context of the European and global history of intellectual property and the creative industries. The study considers the expansion of copyright in the multiple contexts (social, economic political, cultural, technological, ideological, legal) that sustained its rise and development.
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Augusta Dimou is Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. She is a historian specializing in contemporary comparative European History with a regional focus on Southeast and East-Central Europe. She is currently completing her habilitation on the development of intellectual property rights and cultural politics in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

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“This book makes an original and signi cant contribution to copyright scholarship in relation to both its subject matter and its methodology. So far as its subject matter is concerned, it covers a substantial and important part of copyright history (that of Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) that has been neglected in English language scholarship. Its meticulous coverage of this subject-matter tells us just how much has been missed as a result of this lacuna. Methodologically, the book opens up questions about copyright that cross over its political-economic, cultural, social and legal signi cance. The multidisciplinary approach illuminates corners of copyright history that have often been cut in the literature. In doing so, it opens up new research questions about copyright’s place, and the place of regional trajectories of copyright development, in today’s global environment.” <br><cite>Fiona Macmillan, University of Roma Tre <br><br> “Augusta Dimou has delivered a broad and empirically thorough, conceptually and substantively original contribution to the history of intellectual property, the cultural economy and cultural policy in East Central and Southeast Europe. In doing so, she also opens up interesting new perspectives on Europe as a whole and its role in the globalization of cultural and economic relations and legal standards.” <br><cite>Hannes Siegrist, University of Leipzig

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