(Source: Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge
University Press has just published a book on the history of copyright
protecting the visual arts.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book is the
first in-depth and longitudinal study of the history of copyright protecting
the visual arts. Exploring legal developments during an important period in the
making of the modern law, the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, in
relation to four themes - the protection of copyright 'authors' (painters,
photographers and engravers), art collectors, sitters and the public interest -
it uncovers a number of long-forgotten narratives of copyright history,
including views of copyright that differ from how we think today. As well as
considering the distinct nature of the contribution of copyright to the history
of the cultural domain accounted for by scholars of art history and the
sociology of art, this book examines the value to lawyers and policy-makers
today of copyright history as a destabilising influence: in taking us to ways
of thinking that differ from our own, history can sharpen the critical lens
through which we view copyright debates today.
Looks at legal
developments in the making of modern law in relation to the visual arts,
providing fresh perspectives and critical insights into copyright and its
history
This book is
based on extensive original archival work that uncovers unexplored facets of
copyright history
Explores the contribution
of copyright history to broader developments described by scholars of art
history and the sociology of art
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elena Cooper,
CREATe, University of Glasgow
Elena Cooper is
a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at CREATe, University of Glasgow, where she
has been a postdoctoral researcher since 2014. Prior to this, she was Orton
Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
Prior to her time at Cambridge, Elena was a solicitor specialising in
intellectual property litigation. Elena is a member of the British Art Network
organised by the Tate and The Institute of Art and Law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Art,
copyright and 'authors', 1: 1850–62
3. Art,
copyright and 'authors', 2: 1862–11
4. Art,
copyright and collectors: the wrongs that artists commit
5. Art,
copyright and the face: a nineteenth-century publicity right
6. Art,
copyright and the public interest: galleries, printsellers and 'pirates'
7. Drawing
conclusions: images of art and images of copyright.
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