studies

Introductions to the statute include Charting the Movement of Copyright Law in Eighteenth Century Britain, 1695-1775 (Oxford: Hart 2004) by Ronan Deazley, The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2000) by Brad Sherman & Lionel Bently and Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1993) by Mark Rose.

Among other studies see 'The Untold Story of the First Copyright Suit Under the Statute of Anne in 1710' by Tomas Gomez-Arostegui in 25 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2010), an account of Tonson v Baker - litigation by the most famous UK publisher of the day against a gang of notorious book pirates and the first copyright suit brought under the Statute of Anne.






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