Rethinking Copyright: History, Theory, LanguageRethinking Copyright is a small gem for an audience broader than copyright and intellectual property scholars, and well worth acquiring by a variety of general, corporate, law and academic libraries. Laurence Seidenberg, International Journal of Legal Inf |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accompanying text argument artistic Becket Beckford booksellers Boosey British Capitol Records CDPA century Chappell Chapter commentary common law copyright common law right concerning considered copies Copinger Copinger’s Copyright Act Copyright Act 1842 Copyright and Related copyright at common Copyright Law copyright owner copyright protection Deazley decision defendant Donaldson dramatic emphasis added Erle European Intellectual Property example existed at common House of Lords Ibid Information Society Directive infringement intellectual commons Intellectual Property Review intellectual property rights Jeffreys judges King’s labour law lords Law of Copyright Law Review legislation Literary Property literature London Lord Brougham Lord Chancellor Lord Mansfield manuscript Millar monopoly musical observed opinion original Oxford Patents permitted acts perpetual Phillips plaintiff printing public domain published Purday question reference rhetoric right at common Routledge Scrutton St Leonards Statute of Anne statutory supra supra n t]he Taylor technological measures term Treatise unpublished writing
Popular passages
Page 4 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 13 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned...
Page 4 - For this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough and as good left in common for others.
Page 4 - Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labor with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state nature placed it in, it hath by this labor something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men.