On The Origin Of The Right To Copy

Ronan Deazley

ISBN : 9781841133751
Publisher : Hart Publishing Limited U.K.
Publication Year : 2004
Imprint : Hart Publishing
CD Included : No
Pages : 261
Binding : Hardback

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Taking as its point of departure the lapse of the Licensing Act 1662 in 1695, this book examines the lead up to the passage of the Statute of Anne 1709 and charts the movement of copyright law throughout the eighteenth century, culminating in the House of Lords decision in Donaldson v Becket (1774). The established reading of copyright's development throughout this period, from the 1709 Act to the pronouncement in Donaldson, is that it was transformed from a publisher's right to an author's right; that is, legislation initially designed to regulate the marketplace of the bookseller and publisher evolved into an instrument that functioned to recognise the proprietary inevitability of an author's intellectual labours. The historical narrative...

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