Precedents on Privilege
Title | Precedents on Privilege PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1840 |
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Precedents Relating to the Privileges of the Senate of the United States
Title | Precedents Relating to the Privileges of the Senate of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Executive privilege (Government information) |
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Presidential "precedents" for Executive Privilege
Title | Presidential "precedents" for Executive Privilege PDF eBook |
Author | Raoul Berger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1973 |
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Executive Privilege
Title | Executive Privilege PDF eBook |
Author | Raoul Berger |
Publisher | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Law |
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Demonstrates that the presidential claim of authority to withhold information is without historical or constitutional foundation.
Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege
Title | Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege PDF eBook |
Author | Morton Rosenberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Confidential communications |
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The History of English Parliamentary Privilege
Title | The History of English Parliamentary Privilege PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Frederick Wittke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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Privilege and Property
Title | Privilege and Property PDF eBook |
Author | Ronan Deazley |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 190692418X |
What can and can't be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership - of privilege and property. This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices. The essays reach back to the very material world of craftsmanship and mechanical inventions of Renaissance Italy where, in 1469, the German master printer Johannes of Speyer obtained a five-year exclusive privilege to print in Venice and its dominions. Along the intellectual journey that follows, we encounter John Milton who, in his 1644 Areopagitica speech 'For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing', accuses the English parliament of having been deceived by the 'fraud of some old patentees and monopolizers in the trade of bookselling' (i.e. the London Stationers' Company). Later revisionary essays investigate the regulation of the printing press in the North American colonies as a provincial and somewhat crude version of European precedents, and how, in the revolutionary France of 1789, the subtle balance that the royal decrees had established between the interests of the author, the bookseller, and the public, was shattered by the abolition of the privilege system. Contributions also address the specific evolution of rights associated with the visual and performing arts. These essays provide essential reading for anybody interested in copyright, intellectual history and current public policy choices in intellectual property. The volume is a companion to the digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): www.copyrighthistory.org.