TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loewenstein,Joseph
TI  - The author's due: printing and the prehistory of copyright 
SN  - 9780226490410 (electronic bk.)
AV  - Z325 .L84 2002eb
U1  - 070.5/0942 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Book industries and trade
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Printing
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Printing industry
KW  - Copyright
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Authorship
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Publishing
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Auteursrecht
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-336) and index; An introduction to bibliographical politics -- The reformation of the press : patent, copyright, piracy -- Monopolies commercial and doctrinal -- Ingenuity and the mercantile muse -- Monopolizing culture : two case studies -- Personality and print : the genetics of intellectual property -- Milton's talent : the emergence of authorial copyright -- Authentic reproductions
N2  - The Author's Due offers an institutional and cultural history of books, the book trade, and the bibliographic ego. Joseph Loewenstein traces the emergence of possessive authorship from the establishment of a printing industry in England to the passage of the 1710 Statute of Anne, which provided the legal underpinnings for modern copyright. Along the way he demonstrates that the culture of books, including the idea of the author, is intimately tied to the practical trade of publishing those books. As Loewenstein shows, copyright is a form of monopoly that developed alongside a range of related p
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