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From Maimonides to Microsoft : the Jewish law of copyright since the birth of print / Neil Weinstock Netanel with contributions by David Nimmer.
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Netanel, Neil
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Description
xii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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KBM1160 .N48 2016
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Copyright (Jewish law)
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Nimmer, David
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Summary note
Jewish copyright law is a rich body of copyright doctrine and jurisprudence that developed in parallel with Anglo-American and Continental European copyright laws and the printers' privileges that preceded them. Jewish copyright law traces its origins to a dispute adjudicated in 1550, over 150 years before modern copyright law is typically said to have emerged with the Statute of Anne of 1709. It continues to be applied today, notably in a rabbinic ruling outlawing pirated software, issued at Microsoft's request. In 'From Maimonides to Microsoft', Professors Netanel and Nimmer trace the development of Jewish copyright law by relaying the stories of five dramatic disputes, running from the sixteenth century to the present. They describe each dispute in its historical context and examine the rabbinic rulings that sought to resolve it. Remarkably, these disputes address some of the same issues that animate copyright jurisprudence today: Is copyright a property right or a limited regulatory prerogative? What is copyright's rationale? What is its scope? How can copyright be enforced against an infringer who is beyond the applicable legal authority's reach?
Notes
"Glossary and biographies"--Pages 289-295.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction : Microsoft in Bnei Brak
From privileges and printers' guilds to copyright
Rabbinic reprinting bans : between Ktav Dat and privilege
Maharam of Padua versus Giustiniani : rival editions of Maimonides's Mishneh Torah
Rabbinic reprinting bans take hold
From a Yiddish bible to a German prayer book
Internecine battles and the Slavuta Talmud
Moving beyond reprinting bans : from property to the law of the sovereign
The present-day debate : is copyright infringement "stealing"?
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ISBN
9780195371994 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
0195371992 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
9780190868772 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
0190868775 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2015023573
OCLC
911004841
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