Before Copyright: The French Book-Privilege System 1498–1526 - Couverture rigide

Armstrong, Elizabeth

9780521374088: Before Copyright: The French Book-Privilege System 1498–1526

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521374081 ISBN 13 : 9780521374088

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1990

Afficher les exemplaires de cette �dition comportant l?ISBN

1 D'occasion

De EUR 83,47

0 Neuf

Details the development of the privilege system, a precursor to copyright, in early sixteenth-century French publishing.

Les informations fournies dans la section � Synopsis � peuvent faire r�f�rence � une autre �dition de ce titre.

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur

When printing first began, a new book automatically fell into the public domain upon publication. Only a special law or privilegium enacted by a competent authority could protect it from being reprinted without the consent of the author or publisher. Such privileges for books are attested before 1480, but in Germany and Italy their efficacy was limited to a relatively small area by the political fragmentation of the country. During the 1480s and 1490s France became one of Europe's main centres of book production and, as competition intensified, privileges were sought there from 1498. Although privileges were to last as long as the Ancien R�gime, the period to 1526 is the least-known stage of their development and the most important. Most privilege-holders printed the full text of their grant, and many others a summary.

Les informations fournies dans la section � A propos du livre � peuvent faire r�f�rence � une autre �dition de ce titre.