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Fashioning Intellectual Property Vigorous public debate about intellectual property law has a long history. In this assessment of the shifting relationships between the law and the economic, social and cultural sources of creativity and innovation during the long nineteenth century, Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas examine the ‘fashioning’ of the law by focusing on emblematic cases, key legislative changes and broader debates. Along the way, the authors highlight how, in ‘the age of journalism’, the press shaped, and was shaped by, the idea of intellectual property as a protective crucible for improvements in knowledge and progress in the arts and sciences. The engagement in our own time between intellectual property law and the creative industries remains volatile and unsettled. As the authors conclude, the fresh opportunities for artistic diversity, expression and communication offered by new media could see the place of intellectual property in the scheme of law being reinvented once again. MEGAN RICHARDSON is a Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law, an Associate Director (Law) of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, and a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia. JULIAN THOMAS is Director of the Institute for Social Research, and Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 14.139.43.12 on Mon Oct 08 05:23:38 BST 2012. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139045551 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2012 Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law As its economic potential has rapidly expanded, intellectual property has become a subject of front-rank legal importance. Cambridge Intellectual Property Rights and Information Law is a series of monograph studies of major current issues in intellectual property. Each volume contains a mix of international, European, comparative and national law, making this a highly signii cant ser- ies for practitioners, judges and academic researchers in many countries. Series editors William R. Cornish Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Cambridge Lionel B ently Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Cambridge Advisory editors Fran ço is Dessemontet, P rofessor of Law, University of Lausanne Paul G oldstein, P rofessor of Law, Stanford University The Rt. Hon. Sir R obin J acob , C ourt of Appeal, England A list of books in the series can be found at the end of this volume. Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 14.139.43.12 on Mon Oct 08 05:23:38 BST 2012. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139045551 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2012 Fashioning Intellectual Property Exhibition, Advertising and the Press 1789–1918 Megan Richardson Julian T homas Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 14.139.43.12 on Mon Oct 08 05:23:38 BST 2012. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139045551 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2012 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sã o Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, C ambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521767569 © M egan Richardson and Julian Thomas 2012 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2012 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Richardson, Megan. Fashioning intellectual property : exhibition, advertising, and the press, 1789–1918 / Megan Richardson, Julian Thomas. p. cm. – (Cambridge intellectual property and information law ; 14) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-521-76756-9 1. Copyright–Great Britain–History–19th century. I. Thomas, Julian, 1963– II. Title. KD1289.R53 2012 346.4104′8–dc23 2011038186 ISBN 9 78-0-521-76756-9 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. 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Sherwood 154 B P atents, designs and trade marks statistics 163 Select bibliography 166 Index 1 86 Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 14.139.43.12 on Mon Oct 08 05:23:41 BST 2012. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139045551 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2012 Illustrations 1 T itle page from Dean Swift’s Literary Correspondence for Twenty-Four Years, from 1714–1738 page 12 2 T itle page from Robert Southey’s Wat Tyler published by Sherwood, Neely and Jones in 1817 22 3 Q ueen Victoria and family, photographed by Roger Fenton 4 4 4 F red Walker, illustration for Charles Dickens’ ‘A Poor Man’s Tale of a Patent’ 61 5 P rince Albert and family at the Great Exhibition, engraving from the Illustrated London News 69 6 S team i re engine at the Centennial Exhibition, engraving from Scientii c American 8 2 7 A dvertisement for Kodak cameras, 1893 95 8 W. McConnell, ‘The Last Poster’, from William Smith, A dvertise. How? When? Where? 9 7 9 Title page from Appreciations and Addresses Delivered by Lord Rosebery 113 1 0 Oscar Wilde as photographed in New York by Napoleon Sarony 123 1 1 P oster for Eightpence a Mile (costumes designed by Paul Poiret), Alhambra Theatre 1 33 1 2 P atents, designs and trade marks statistics, 1884–1918 1 65 ix Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 14.139.43.12 on Mon Oct 08 05:23:44 BST 2012. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139045551 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2012 Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 14.139.43.12 on Mon Oct 08 05:23:44 BST 2012. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139045551 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2012 Cambridge Books Online http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ Fashioning Intellectual Property Exhibition, Advertising and the Press, 1789–1918 Megan Richardson, Julian Thomas Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139045551 Online ISBN: 9781139045551 Hardback ISBN: 9780521767569 Chapter Preface pp. xi-xii Chapter DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139045551.001 Cambridge University Press
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