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A Media History of Copyright

Monika Dommann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2019
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-0992-0 (ISBN)

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Copyright is under siege. From file sharing to vast library scanning projects, new technologies, actors, and attitudes toward intellectual property threaten the value of creative work. However, while digital media and the Internet have made making and sharing perfect copies of original works almost effortless, debates about protecting authors' rights are nothing new. In this sweeping account of the evolution of copyright law since the mid-nineteenth century, Monika Dommann explores how radical media changes—from sheet music and phonographs to photocopiers and networked information systems—have challenged and transformed legal and cultural concept of authors' rights.

Dommann provides a critical transatlantic perspective on developments in copyright law and mechanical reproduction of words and music, charting how artists, media companies, and lawmakers in the United States and western Europe approached the complex tangle of technological innovation, intellectual property, and consumer interests. From the seemingly innocuous music box, invented around 1800, to BASF's magnetic tapes and Xerox machines, she demonstrates how copyright has been continuously destabilized by emerging technologies, requiring new legal norms to regulate commercial and private copying practices. Without minimizing digital media's radical disruption to notions of intellectual property, Dommann uncovers the deep historical roots of the conflict between copyright and media—a story that can inform present-day debates over the legal protection of authorship.

Monika Dommann is Professor of Modern History at the University of Zurich. Sarah Pybus translates fiction and nonfiction from German to English, and was awarded first place in the inaugural Geisteswissenschaften International Nonfiction Translation (GINT) Prize.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: A Media History of Legal Norms

Part I: Writing and Recording

1. Sheet Music

2. Images of Books

3. Voice Recorders

4. Canned Music

Part II: Collecting Agencies and Research Materials

5. Collecting Collectives

6. Celluloid Circulations

7. Performing Artists

Part III: Private Copies and Universal Standards

8. Fees for Devices

9. Flow of Information

10. Authors of Tradition

Conclusion: Legal Histories of Media Transformation

Further Reading: Bibliographic Essay

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2019
Übersetzer	Sarah Pybus
Zusatzinfo	33 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5017-0992-5 / 1501709925
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-0992-0 / 9781501709920
Zustand	Neuware