(Source: Cornell University Press)
Cornell
University Press has published a new book on media changes and the history of
copyright law.
ABOUT THE
BOOK
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.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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
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
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