Between intelectual property and maintenance of monopoly: the debate on regulating the market for books in England from 1662 to 1710

• Grant number: 11/02580-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Henrique Soares Carneiro
• Grantee: Cíntia Medina de Souza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to reconstruct the debate on regulating the market for books in England at the turn of the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, in which the performance of the public sphere was decisive in establishing the copyright law of 1710 in order to investigate, in his main arguments, the reasons for the remaining of the monopoly in that law. Therefore, the regulations will be reviewed and the arguments of the period of the establishment of Lincensing Act of 1662 to the copyright law de 1710. This study aims to further contribute to a reflection on the current system of copyright, the subject under discussion in the contemporary debate regarding the production and access to knowledge in print and digital. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SOUZA, Cíntia Medina de. Between property protection and maintenance of the monopoly: the debate on the regulation of the book market in England from 1662 to 1774. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.