Rethinking Copyright: History, Theory, Language

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006 - Law - 216 pages
Rethinking 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
 

Contents

17101774
13
17741854
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18541912
56
what copyright isnt or conceiving the public domain
101
what is copyright? or the case for intellectual property freedoms and privileges and in that order
135
6 Conclusion
167
References
178
Index
191
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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.

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Ronan Deazley, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, UK

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