A shifting empire
Subtitle: 100 years of the Copyright Act 1911
By: edited by Uma Suthersanen and Ysolde Gendreau
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781781003084
Subjects: Copyright; History; International Copyright; Colonies; Law and legislation; Great Britain
Description: "A Shifting Empire offers a unique global, historical view of copyright development and will be a valuable resource for policy-makers, academic scholars and members of international copyright associations" --Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Albion's legacy?  -- Uma Suthersanen and Ysolde Gendreu; title: The first global copyright act  -- Uma Suthersanen; title: New Zealand and the imperial copyright tradition  -- Geoff McLay; title: The Imperial copyright act 1911 in Australia  -- Sam Ricketson; title: Mandatory copyright : from pre-Palestine to Israel, 1910-2007  -- Michael D. Birnhack; title: The Imperial copyright act 1911 and the Indian copyright law  -- N.S. Gopalakrishnan; title: The Imperial copyright act 1911 in Singapore : copyright creatures great and small, this act it made them all  -- Ng-Loy Wee Loon; title: Shades of grey : uncovering the century old imperial imprint on Jamaica's modern copyright act  -- Dianne Daley; title: The Imperial copyright act 1911's role in shaping South African copyright law  -- Tana Pistorius; title: No copyright law is an island -- Ysolde Gendreau.