Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century Alexander Isabella
Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century Alexander Isabella Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and…
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Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century Alexander Isabella
Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public. Historical examinations of copyright have focused on the 18th century, but this book's main concern is with the period after 1774 in Britain. While much academic work, both historical and contemporary, has been done on the authorship side of the equation, this book examines the notion of public interest, and the way that concepts of public interest and the rhetoric surrounding it have been involved in shaping the law of literary copyright.
The book engages with this complexity by moving beyond debates about the appropriate duration of copyright, and The 19th century was the period during which the boundaries of copyright, as it is known today, were drawn, and ideas of "public interest" were integral to this process, but in different and complex ways.