authorship and ownership – of privilege and property.This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a … inventions of Renaissance Italy where, in 1469, the German master printer Johannes of Speyer obtained a five-year exclusive …

The history of the copyright system appears to be approaching an end. A pressing question now is whether or not the …

drastically different results: France and the United States. From there it will retrace the history of the so-called Foreign …

(March 1898), pp. 461-7.Augustine Birrell, ⁰́₈The Present Situation⁰́₉, in Seven Lectures on the Law and History of Copyright …