TY  - BOOK
AU  - Isabella Alexander
AU  - Isabella Alexander
TI  - Copyright law and the public interest in the nineteenth century
SN  - 9781841137865
U1  - 346.4104 ALE 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford ; Portland, Or. 
PB  - : Hart
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - ;LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
KW  - ;Public interest -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
N1  - 	Introduction: Copyright, history, the public --
Copyright before the nineteenth century --
Copyright, the book trade and the reading public --
Extension and expansion --
Examination and internationalisation --
Infringement at common law : drawing copyright's boundaries --
The making of the 1911 Imperial Copyright Act --
Conclusion
N2  - 	
Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public. While much academic work, both historical and contemporary, has been done on the authorship side of the equation, this book examines the notion of public interest, and the way that concepts of public interest and the rhetoric surrounding it have been involved in shaping the law of copyright. While many histories of copyright focus on the eighteenth century, this book's main concern is with the period after 1774.
ER  -