Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright

by Mark Rose

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Rose, Mark. Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. x, 176 pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped spine, internally clean and bright. Fine, as new, in a fine dust jacket. 25. * The notion of the author as the creator and therefore the first owner of a work is deeply rooted both in our economic system and in our concept of the individual. But this concept of authorship is modern. Mark Rose traces the formation

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