The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle

Contents: Introduction : The agon of author and audience The battle between Anglo-American copyright and European authors' rights From royal privilege to literary property : a common start to copyright in the eighteenth century The ways part : copyright and authors' rights in the nineteenth century Continental drift : Europe moves from property to personality at the turn of the century The strange birth of moral rights in Fascist Europe The postwar apotheosis of authors' rights America turns European : the battle of the booksellers redux in the 1990s The rise of the digital public : the copyright wars continue in the new millennium Conclusion: Reclaiming the spirit of copyright