Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

This book is the result of several years of exchanges among the editors, the contributors, and a wider group of scholars that shared their work and expertise at two international symposia. Law, Culture, and Industry: Toward a History of Intellectual Property for Visual Works in the Long Nineteenth Century. The First Copyright Case under the 1735 Engravings Act: The Germination of Visual Copyright? Who Owns Washington? Gilbert Stuart and the Battle for Artistic Property in the Early American Republic...