Non-Legal Sources of Copyright Law

Isabella Alexander, University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Law, has published A Map, a Poem and Two Copyright Statutes as 2013 ANZLH E-Journal Refereed Paper No. 5. Here is the abstract.

This paper forms part of a forum made up of papers delivered at the 'Law, History, Culture: Reading Sources' workshop, held at the UTS Faculty of Law on 26 July 2013. The paper examines three sources: a map of John Seller, a poem by Jonathan Swift, and two copyright statutes of the eighteenth century and considers what light the non-legal sources throw upon the legal sources and what they can tell us about the early development of copyright law.

Download the full text of the paper from SSRN at the link.