The Great Copyright Disaster
John Sutherland, 12 January 1995
Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright
by Mark Rose.
Harvard, 176 pp., £21.95, October 1993,0 674 05308 7 Show More
by Mark Rose.
Harvard, 176 pp., £21.95, October 1993,
Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation
by Susan Stewart.
Duke, 353 pp., £15.95, November 1994,0 8223 1545 9 Show More
by Susan Stewart.
Duke, 353 pp., £15.95, November 1994,
The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature
edited by Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi.
Duke, 562 pp., £42.75, January 1994,0 8223 1412 6 Show More
edited by Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi.
Duke, 562 pp., £42.75, January 1994,
“... with the end of copyright protection. Heinemann were very happy to churn out their collected D.H. Lawrence, and sub-lease the texts to Penguin for forty-odd years. Then, on the brink of those works entering the public domain, the public whose domain it is was informed by Michael Black of Cambridge University Press that the standard ... ”