Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England : the Framing of the 1842 Copyright Act.

Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England : the Framing of the 1842 Copyright Act.

This is the first study of the Bills leading to the Copyright Act 1842, during which Talfourd sought to reform copyright law. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, Seville explores the controversy and resistance provoked by the Act, which led to Talfourd having to considerably modify his...

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Main Author: Seville, Catherine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in English legal history.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Copyright Act 1842.
Copyright Act 1842 (Great Britain)
1800-1899
Copyright > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Copyright
Great Britain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Petitions and copyright; 3 Critics and parliament; 4 Critics in the book trade I: Print workers and their allies; 5 Critics in the book trade II: Publishing and publishers; 6 The campaign in the daily press; 7 Authors and the beginnings of authors' organisations; 8 The making of the case for the bill; 9 Conclusion; Appendix I: Chronology of the bills; Appendix II: Successive versions of the bill; Appendix III: The Copyright Act 1842; Bibliography; Index.

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