Law (9)

• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property
• Material Culture
• Visual Arts

Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century

• Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire
• Will Slauter

The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions of paintings to daguerreotypes, stereoscopic views, and mass-produced sculptures, works of visual art became available in a wider range of media than ever before. But the circulation and reproduction of artworks also raised new questions about the legal rights of painters, sculptors, engravers, photographers, architects, collectors, publishers, and subjects of representation (such as sitters in paintings or photographs). Copyright and patent laws tussled with informal cultural norms and business strategies as individuals and groups attempted to exert some degree of control over these visual creations.

• Law
• Linguistics
• Reference Books

A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law

• Jeffrey Love
• Inger Larsson
• Ulrika Djärv
• Christine Peel
• Erik Simensen

'A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law' is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of medieval Scandinavia. This polyglot dictionary draws on the vast and vibrant range of vernacular legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts – terminology which yields valuable insights into the quotidian realities of crime and retribution; the processes, application and execution of laws; and the cultural and societal concerns underlying the development and promulgation of such laws.

• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property

Whose Book Is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity

• Janis Jefferies
• Sarah Kember

Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.

• Health
• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World

• Monirul Azam

Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of intellectual property concerning pharmaceutical patents against the urgent need for accessible and affordable medicines. In this timely and necessary book, Monirul Azam examines the attempts of several developing countries to walk this fine line.

• Economics, Politics and Sociology
• Law

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century: A Living Document in a Changing World

• Gordon Brown

The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume – offers a 21st-century commentary on the original document, furthering the work of human rights and illuminating the ideal of global citizenship. What does it mean for each of us to be members of a global community?

• Law

Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law in Honour of Professor Robert Rennie

• Frankie McCarthy
• James Chalmers
• Stephen Bogle

Professor Robert Rennie has been one of the most influential voices in Scots private law over the past thirty years. Highly respected as both an academic and a practitioner, his contribution to the development of property law and practice has been substantial and unique. This volume celebrates his retirement from the Chair of Conveyancing at the University of Glasgow in 2014 with a selection of essays written by his peers and colleagues from the judiciary, academia and legal practice.

• Digital Humanities
• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property

The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

• Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
• Juan Carlos De Martin

Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before, but along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture’s use – copyright and related rights – have become increasingly restrictive. Bringing together academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy makers, this book argues that the Public Domain – the informational works owned by all of us – is fundamental to a healthy society. Essential reading for anyone interested in the current debate about copyright and the internet, this book opens up discussion and offers practical solutions to the difficult question of the regulation of culture in the digital age.

• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property
• Material Culture

Privilege and Property: Essays on the History of Copyright

• Ronan Deazley
• Martin Kretschmer
• Lionel Bently

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. Exploring developments in the regulation of printing in Europe and North America from the fifteenth century onwards, as well as the specific evolution of rights associated with the visual and performing arts, this volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices.

• Biography
• European Studies
• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• Law
• Literature

Coleridge's Laws: A Study of Coleridge in Malta

• Barry Hough
• Howard Davis
• Lydia Davis

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for one quite short period of his life he held real political power – acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. Meticulously researched, this book provides detailed analysis of the laws drafted by Coleridge, together with the first published translations of them. Drawing upon newly discovered archival materials, the authors shed new light on Coleridge’s sense of political and legal morality, showing how Coleridge’s actions whilst in a position of power differed markedly from the idealism he advocated before taking office.