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An intrinsically fascinating and meticulously presented history of copyright in relationship to the ever advancing progress of the technologies affecting the intellectual property rights of authors (and their publishers!), Authors and Apparatus: A Media History of Copyright is ably translated from the original German into English for an American readership by Sarah Pybus.
An elegant entrée into the law of copyright and the history of media.
Recent legal and historical research on intellectual property right has underscored the embedded instability of modern copyright law, and this book enriches the ongoing discussion by identifying the medium-based exclusive authorship as the fundamental source of this instability. Intriguingly, while this book emphasizes the new reproduction technologies as the main drives... scholars and students of media history and legal history will learn a great deal from it.
[A] thoughtful and imaginative book that provides a welcome new perspective on our copyright conundrums.
Monika Dommann adopts a novel interdisciplinary approach to the history of copyright that attempts to meld the history of communications media with the history of legal norms surrounding such media. [The book's] later parts provide a riveting economic and institutional history of some of the key organizationally influenced organs of the global copyright system, and the extent to which these entities interacted with (and often generated) new norms of use, reproduction, and control. In narrating this history, the book does an excellent job, and its transnational comparisons are particularly insightful.
Monika Dommann is Professor of Modern History at the University of Zurich.
Sarah Pybus translates fiction and nonfiction from German to English, and was awarded first place in the inaugural Geisteswissenschaften International Nonfiction Translation (GINT) Prize.