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Authorship and Copyright
About this book
First published in 1992, Authorship and Copyright traces the history of constructions of authorship as a legal reality. It offers an alternative to the two mainstream interpretations that have traditionally been assigned to authorship: the Romantic dialectical 'birth of the author' or the language-based post-structuralist 'death of the author.' Saunders examines the shortcomings of both schemes by arguing that they impose an arbitrary philosophical direction on the history of authorship and the law of copyright. Saunders addresses the issues relating to copyright and the construction of authorship as a legal status. Combining information and polemic, the author explores such matters as the historical and theoretical relations of copyright and the droit moral, the aestheticization of the law and the juridification of aesthetics, and the argument that authorship as a legal reality is a historically contingent and variable arrangement that cannot be separated from its cultural and juridical context. This book will be of interest to students of law, literature and philosophy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Preliminaries: positivities and polemics
- 2 Early modern law of copyright in England: statutes, courts and book cultures
- 3 France: from royal privilege to the droit moral
- 4 German theory: rights of personality
- 5 English copyright in the nineteenth century: the missing person
- 6 The USA: a legal republic and a literary industry
- 7 The internationalisation of copyright and authorship
- 8 Some cultural issues for legal study
- 9 Some legal lessons for literary and cultural studies
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of cases
- Index