Rose 1993

Rose, Mark. Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

The Question of Literary Property

modern authorship as "proprietorship; the author is conceived as the originator and therefor the owner of a special kind of commodity, the work" (1)

copyright: drawing lines between works, where one ends and another begins (3)

Lockean notion of property -- every man has property in his own person, and whatever he converts from state of nature -- mixed with emphasis on originality in c18 = "author as a creator who is entitled to profit from his intellectual labor" (6); landed estate (real property) forms basis for understanding literary property (7)