Becoming Property: Art, Theory, and Law in Early Modern France
- Submitting institution
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Courtauld Institute of Art
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 24
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- ISBN
- 9780300222791
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book provides an historical reading of copyright and patent in France before the first intellectual property acts of 1791-93. Its 200,000 word text draws on decades of primary research; many of its archival and printed sources are previously unpublished. It examines for the first time the reciprocal relations between key concepts of the humanist artistic discourse (imitation, invention) and those of property law on the eve of Capitalism. It proposes a new interpretation of copyright as law shaped by the visuality and materiality of art.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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