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