Regulating the Working and Nonworking Poor by William P. Quigley. This article will review how the working and the nonworking poor were regulated by 500 years of English poor laws. It will conclude with ideas about the principles which have since evolved to regulate the working and nonworking poor.
Many individuals hold the view that authorship is lost on the net.
With the rapid transfer of information and the chaotic nature of internet communication, it becomes difficult to track an author if indeed the name of one ever appears. This authorless move challenges notions of intellectual property and authorship that have long been cornerstones of our legal system. In this paper I wish to argue that modern communications technology gives us an opportunity to again confront the debate over authorship and intellectual property that has its roots in the 18th century. I argue that while this debate is certainly not new, the infusion of the hyper-reality of internet and virtual communication bring us to a point in which a more radical challenge to intellectual property monopolies and the corresponding concept of the proprietary authorship can be examined. First, I wish to trace the 18th century debates on copyright and the emerging notion of the proprietary author to indicate how transformative this debate has been.