1 Introduction: Copyright, History, the Public I. The Public Interest: Balances and Incentives II. The Stories So Far ... III. Scope and Structure 2 Copyright before the Nineteenth Century I. Pre-history of the Statute of Anne II. The Statute Takes Shape III. Charting the Boundaries of the Statute of Anne IV. Unfinished Edges 3 Copyright, the Book Trade and the Reading Public I. Co-operation and Corporatism in the Book Trade II. The Battle over Legal Deposit III. Books Contrary to the Public Interest IV. Conclusion 4 Extension and Expansion I. Copyright in the Spoken Word II. The Copyright Act of 1842 III. Foreign Authors and the Case of Jefferys v Boosey 5 Examination and Internationalisation I. The Royal Copyright Commission of 1878 II. The Rise of Interest Groups and the Interplay of Domestic and International Copyright III. Conclusion 6 Infringement at Common Law: Drawing Copyright's Boundaries I. Infringement in the Eighteenth Century II. The Nineteenth Century III. Infringement at the Century's End 7 The Making of the 1911 Imperial Copyright Act I. The fin-de-siecle Years: Laying the Foundations II. A Musical Interlude III. The Imperial Copyright Act of 1911 8 Conclusion
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