Copyright and libel

Towheed, Shafquat (2010). Copyright and libel. In: Logan, Peter Melville ed. The Encyclopedia of the Novel. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, 1 (1). Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 212–218.

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Abstract

This encyclopaedia entry provides a brief but detailed summary of the impact of the development of copyright law and the institution of libel on the rise of the novel across the world.

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• Item ORO ID
• 20132
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-4051-6184-1, 978-1-4051-6184-8
• Keywords
• copyright law; libel; the novel; Licensing Act; Author privilege system; Anglo-American copyright Act; Berne Convention; Statute of Anne; Daniel Defoe; Rudyard Kipling; James Joyce; Fox's Libel Act; piracy
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• History of Books and Reading (HOBAR)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Depositing User
• Shafquat Towheed