On the origin of the right to copy : charting the movement of copyright law in eighteenth-century Britain (1695-1775)
Taking as its point of departure the lapse of the Licensing Act 1662 in 1665, this book examines the lead up to the passage of the Statute of Anne 1709 and follows the development of copyright law throughout the eighteenth century, culminating in the House of Lords decision of Donaldson v Becket (1774)
History
xxvi, 261 pages ; 24 cm
9781841133751, 1841133752
56456630
Politics, propaganda, and profanity; not property
The Statute of Anne; a miserable havock
Scraps of proceedings
Be careful what you wish for
The first : copyright at common law? A complicated action. The second : the lawyers' tales
Property and the pamphleteers
Millar v Taylor; the temporary perpetual triumph
Donaldson v Becket; a game of numbers
An ending and a beginning
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