Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England: The Framing of the 1842 Copyright ActCambridge University Press, 20.09.1999 - 300 Seiten Talfourd's first Copyright Bill was presented in 1837, and the public and Parliamentary controversy it provoked is reflected in contemporary pamphlets, correspondence, and hundreds of petitions presented to Parliament, as well as in the changing aims of the Bill itself. In addition to the expected debate as to the nature of literary property and the economic effects on the publishing trade, discussion of copyright law raised broader questions; the relative values of literature and science, the importance of public education, the dangers of monopolies, and the nature of public interest. In a period of social, political and technological upheaval, these were incendiary matters. Talfourd audaciously demanded not only a considerable extension of copyright term, but also international protection. This book explores and sets in context the making of the Copyright Act 1842, using it to illuminate enduring issues and difficulties in the legal concept of intellectual property. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The 1842 Act passage and position | 6 |
Copyright its nature and history | 9 |
Talfourd and his aims | 16 |
Conflicting rationales | 19 |
Alternatives to copyright a profession of authorship? | 26 |
PETITIONS AND COPYRIGHT | 33 |
Petitions forms and formalities | 36 |
Cheap publications the book trade | 109 |
Cooperation and organisation | 111 |
The campaign against the bills | 115 |
THE CAMPAIGN IN THE DAILY PRESS | 128 |
Londong dailies | 132 |
Evening papers | 145 |
Conclusion | 148 |
AUTHORS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF AUTHORS ORGANISATIONS | 149 |
Petitions volume and subjects | 37 |
CRITICS IN PARLIAMENT | 40 |
Political crosscurrents | 48 |
Broughman | 51 |
Macaulay | 60 |
CRITICS IN THE BOOK TRADE I PRINT WORKERS AND THEIR ALLIES | 68 |
Printers | 69 |
The dispute spreads journeymen 183940 | 81 |
The process of diffusion | 84 |
CRITICS IN THE BOOK TRADE II PUBLISHING AND PUBLISHERS | 100 |
The book trade and authors | 101 |
Cheap publications the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | 105 |
Southey | 153 |
Wordsworth campaign manager | 159 |
THE MAKING OF THE CASE FOR THE BILL | 176 |
The argument in the periodicals | 195 |
CONCLUSION | 210 |
Chronology of the bills | 219 |
Successive versions of the bill | 221 |
The Copyright Act 1842 | 258 |
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