Characters Before Copyright

Characters Before Copyright
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9780192567925
ISBN-13 : 0192567926
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Characters Before Copyright by : Matthew H. Birkhold

How did authors control the literary fates of fictional characters before the existence of copyright? Could a second author do anything with another author's character? Situated between the decline of the privilege system and the rise of copyright, literary borrowing in eighteenth-century Germany has long been considered unregulated. This book tells a different story. Characters before Copyright documents the surprisingly widespread eighteenth-century practice of writing fan fictionliterary works written by readers who appropriate preexisting characters invented by other authorsand reconstructs the contemporaneous debate about the literary phenomenon. Like fan fiction today, these texts took the form of sequels, prequels, and spinoffs. Analyzing the evolving reading, writing, and consumer habits of late-eighteenth-century Germany, Characters before Copyright identifies the social, economic, and aesthetic changes that fostered the rapid rise of fan fiction after 1750. Based on archival work and an ethnographic approach borrowed from legal anthropology, this book then uncovers the unwritten customary norms that governed the production of these works. Characters before Copyright thus reinterprets the eighteenth-century literary commons, arguing that what may appear to have been the free circulation of characters was actually circumscribed by an exacting set of rules and conditions. These norms translated into a unique type of literature that gave rise to remarkable forms of collaborative authorship and originality. Characters before Copyright provides a new perspective on the eighteenth-century book trade and the rise of intellectual property, reevaluating the concept of literary property, the history of moral rights, and the tradition of free culture.

Characters Before Copyright

Characters Before Copyright
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 0191876755
ISBN-13 : 9780191876752
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Characters Before Copyright by : Matthew H. Birkhold

Based on extensive archival work, Characters before Copyright shows that fan fiction proliferated in the eighteenth century and explains why this phenomenon emerged when it did.

Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law

Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 155
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ISBN-10 : 9781003835066
ISBN-13 : 1003835066
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law by : Sarah Hook

This book argues that moral rights provisions in copyright law rest on a misunderstanding, or romanticisation, of the role of the author. The Romantic conception of authorship, as a lone genius, creating from nothing, sensitive and vulnerable, has helped publishers push for strong copyright reform. But is this conception borne out in practice – especially in a world of meme culture, of artificial intelligence generated art and poetry, and of open source and fan fiction? This book probes the romantic vignette of the author through its legal adoption. Moral rights are rights that attach to the non-economic – for example, intellectual or emotional – interests of an author in their work. Much like defamation, moral rights see the right of reputation as superior to the right of freedom of expression. However, unlike defamation, moral rights are not protecting against defamatory actions against a person. In most jurisdictions, they are provisions set within copyright regimes; regimes whose purpose is to incentivise innovation. Challenging the way we think about authorship and how it should be protected by law, the book draws on a wide range of historical and contemporary examples to demonstrate how moral rights can constitute a barrier to transformative creativity. While authors and artists require strong rights to protect their ability to earn an income and incentivise creativity, moral rights, the book argues, may in turn actually harm their ability to do so. This timely criticism of moral rights will appeal to researchers, students, policy makers and lawyers working in the area of intellectual property law, as well as legal theorists, sociolegal scholars and legal historians with relevant interests.

Getting Permission

Getting Permission
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Publisher : NOLO
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 9781413300741
ISBN-13 : 141330074X
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Getting Permission by : Richard Stim

Detailed advice (and plenty of sample forms, worksheets and agreements) on everything from getting a business started to kicking out an unwanted partner later. - Los Angeles Times - It is the most definitive, complete and current do-it-yourself patent book ever written and it is written in easy-to-understand laymen's terms. - Mary Bellis, Inventor's Guide at About.com - Every step of the patent process is presented in order in this gem of a book, complete with official forms - San Francisco Chronicle - David Pressman is a practicing patent attorney, a former patent examiner, and the author of Patent It Yourself. His book is easy to understand and can save thousands of dollars by writing your own patent application, or by writing much of it, and having a patent agent or attorney edit and write the claims section. - Jack Lander, The Inventor's Bookstore - Like all law, [patent law] is pretty complex stuff. This clearly written guide will help minimize legal fees by preparing you to do what you can for yourself.- Mike Maza, Dallas Morning News - The book presents complicated procedures in easily digested chunks, with anecdotes, forms and plenty of old-fashioned good advice - The Denver Post - The most complete and authoritative work on patents and inventions for laypersons - InventNet - Contains all necessary forms and instructions plus advice on marketing your invention. - Money Magazine - The best roll-up-your-sleeves guide for filers who don't want to pay a ransom. - Inc.- Patent It Yourself is a top-notch reference for patent and trademark information. - San Francisco Examiner

Character Merchandising

Character Merchandising
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9789819756285
ISBN-13 : 9819756286
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Character Merchandising by : Vandana Mahalwar

Nimmer on Copyright

Nimmer on Copyright
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Publisher :
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : LCCN:2016269001
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Nimmer on Copyright by : Melville B. Nimmer

The Wind Done Gone

The Wind Done Gone
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0618219064
ISBN-13 : 9780618219063
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Wind Done Gone by : Alice Randall

A parody of Gone with the wind, this novel tells the story of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister born into slavery who eventually triumphs.

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780748646340
ISBN-13 : 0748646345
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama by : Ian Brown

Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and formsThe 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre, with particular attention to the last 100 years.The first part of the volume covers Scottish drama from the earliest records to the late twentieth-century literary revival, as well as translation in Scottish theatre and non-theatrical drama. The second part focuses on the work of influential Scottish playwrights, from J. M. Barrie and James Bridie to Ena Lamont Stewart, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan and right up to contemporary playwrights Anthony Neilson, Gregory Burke, Henry Adams and Douglas Maxwell.

Writing the Stage Coach Nation

Writing the Stage Coach Nation
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780198769439
ISBN-13 : 0198769431
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Writing the Stage Coach Nation by : Ruth Livesey

Many Victorian novels take place not in the steam-powered railway present of that era, but in the recent past: a world moving by stage and mail coach. Ruth Livesey explores the historical consciousness of such works by Dickens, Bronte, Eliot, and Hardy, and explains how they convey an idea of a national belonging through a sense of local place.