Product Description: Copyright reflects far more than economic interests. Embedded within conflicts over royalties and infringement are cultural values—about race, class, access, ownership, free speech, and democracy—which influence how rights are determined and enforced...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An illustrated history of the copyright introduces readers to two centuries of law and tradition surrounding this practice of protecting the rights of copyright holders in terms of such fields as music, publishing, the visual and performing arts, journalism, cinema, television, and computers and the Internet. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The notion of the author as the creator and therefore the first owner of a work is deeply rooted both in our economic system and in our concept of the individual. But this concept of authorship is modern. Mark Rose traces the formation of copyright in eighteenth-century Britain--and in the process highlights still current issues of intellectual property...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)