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''pirate'': use arose in English Revolution; previously, Donne had referred to antiquarian plagiarists as "wit-pyrats" (1611) (23), but | ''pirate'': use arose in English Revolution; previously, Donne had referred to antiquarian plagiarists as "wit-pyrats" (1611) (23), but | ||
Stationers' Company: | '''Stationers' Company:''' | ||
* SC could come look around printing houses for quality control | * SC could come look around printing houses for quality control | ||
* printing literally done in house by regulation -- domestic moral authority; pirated printing was done outside the house, in "holes" or "corners" | * printing literally done in house by regulation -- domestic moral authority; pirated printing was done outside the house, in "holes" or "corners" | ||
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* 1624: Monopolies Act by Parliament; Crown could only issue patents for activities under its authority (like gunpowder) or where no trade already existed in the realm | * 1624: Monopolies Act by Parliament; Crown could only issue patents for activities under its authority (like gunpowder) or where no trade already existed in the realm | ||
* thought to mark the origin of Anglo-American intellectual property; but "in context, its real target was this proliferation of Crown intervention in the realm's everyday commercial conduct" (28) | * thought to mark the origin of Anglo-American intellectual property; but "in context, its real target was this proliferation of Crown intervention in the realm's everyday commercial conduct" (28) | ||
'''English Civil War''' | |||
* regulation out the window | |||
* Milton's Areopagitica, Gerrard Winstanley's pamphlets | |||
Revision as of 01:27, 3 December 2010
The Invention of Piracy
- "Precisely when authorship took on a mantle of public authority, through the crafts of the printed book, its violation came to be seen as paramount transgression -- as an offense against the common good akin to the crime of the brigand, bandit, or pirate." (19)
medieval distinction between liberal and mechanical arts
- Renaissance broke down these barriers; craft guilds with intellectual pursuits
pirate: use arose in English Revolution; previously, Donne had referred to antiquarian plagiarists as "wit-pyrats" (1611) (23), but
Stationers' Company:
- SC could come look around printing houses for quality control
- printing literally done in house by regulation -- domestic moral authority; pirated printing was done outside the house, in "holes" or "corners"
- author and reader had no role (27)
Stationers' Register vs. Crown (privileges and patents)
- 1624: Monopolies Act by Parliament; Crown could only issue patents for activities under its authority (like gunpowder) or where no trade already existed in the realm
- thought to mark the origin of Anglo-American intellectual property; but "in context, its real target was this proliferation of Crown intervention in the realm's everyday commercial conduct" (28)
English Civil War
- regulation out the window
- Milton's Areopagitica, Gerrard Winstanley's pamphlets