Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Areopagitica
Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Areopagitica
Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Privilege and Property
Author: Ronan DeazleyPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 190692418X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
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.
Areopagitica
Author: John MiltonPublisher: SSEL
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
From the introduction of printing into England, the liberty of the press had been modified from time to time by royal proclamations. In 1557 the Stationers Company of London was formed. The exclusive privilege of printing and publishing in the English dominions was given to 97 London stationers and their successors by regular apprenticeship. All printing was thus centralised in London under the immediate inspection of the Government. No one could legally print, without special license, who did not belong to the Stationers Company. The Company had power to search for and to seize publications which infringed their privilege.In November, 1644, Miltons Areopagitica, a plea for the free expression of opinion, was published as a protest against this Order. It is a pamphlet in the form of a speech supposed to be addressed to the Parliament.This Premium edition is annotated with a commentary by Sir R. C Jebb and a biography by A. W Verity. It also comes with a beautiful layout that makes reading comfortable.
Areopagitica and Other Prose Works of John Milton
Author: John MiltonPublisher: London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing
Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Value of Milton
Author: John LeonardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107059852
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.
Areopagitica
Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Areopagitica; with a Commentary by Sir Richard C. Jebb
Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Areopagitica
Author: John MiltonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
'Areopagitica' is a prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defenses of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications.