Authorship and Copyright
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Authorship and Copyright

  1. 277 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032440972
eBook ISBN
9781000884869
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Preliminaries: positivities and polemics
  10. 2 Early modern law of copyright in England: statutes, courts and book cultures
  11. 3 France: from royal privilege to the droit moral
  12. 4 German theory: rights of personality
  13. 5 English copyright in the nineteenth century: the missing person
  14. 6 The USA: a legal republic and a literary industry
  15. 7 The internationalisation of copyright and authorship
  16. 8 Some cultural issues for legal study
  17. 9 Some legal lessons for literary and cultural studies
  18. 10 Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index of cases
  22. Index