Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A Short History of CopyrightIntroduction

A Short History of Copyright: Introduction [Copyright history matters because, so far as copyright regulation is concerned, the past informs the present. Copyright policy—the reasons given for laws—is highly contested, in a way that most legal policy is not. Lawyers, for example, argue about interpretation or application of contract law principles. Few argue about the principles, because they are agreed. By contrast, consensus about copyright policy does not exist, unless the consensus is the consensus of a faction. Should production and supply of information be controlled? How should it be controlled? Who controls? How? What is the social effect of control? The economic effect? Does control have a future? What might that future be? The copyright hegemon, a global network of rules and interests governing supply and consumption of information, shapes economic activities and our interpretation of the world. Some say that the hegemon must expire, unable to reconcile internal contradictions. Others argue that reduction of proprietary rights invites chaos. No one knows the future. This book tries to explain the past to help us understand the present and think constructively about what may lie ahead.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Short History of CopyrightIntroduction

Download PDF
0 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/a-short-history-of-copyright-introduction-0DVyyjEJJ2
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
ISBN
978-3-319-02074-7
Pages
1 –1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-02075-4_1
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[Copyright history matters because, so far as copyright regulation is concerned, the past informs the present. Copyright policy—the reasons given for laws—is highly contested, in a way that most legal policy is not. Lawyers, for example, argue about interpretation or application of contract law principles. Few argue about the principles, because they are agreed. By contrast, consensus about copyright policy does not exist, unless the consensus is the consensus of a faction. Should production and supply of information be controlled? How should it be controlled? Who controls? How? What is the social effect of control? The economic effect? Does control have a future? What might that future be? The copyright hegemon, a global network of rules and interests governing supply and consumption of information, shapes economic activities and our interpretation of the world. Some say that the hegemon must expire, unable to reconcile internal contradictions. Others argue that reduction of proprietary rights invites chaos. No one knows the future. This book tries to explain the past to help us understand the present and think constructively about what may lie ahead.]

Published: Aug 28, 2013

Keywords: Copyright Policy; Copyright Regulations; Proprietary Rights; Legal Policy; Hegemon

There are no references for this article.