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Copyrighting Chinese media: cultural commodification in a political economic context
This dissertation documents the development of copyright in contemporary China in the context of social transformation and media growth and works to understand copyright in social and political economic perspectives. The chapters study the history of copyright, debates and conflicts in the making …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
The first rule of writing is an important one: writers should not plagiarize; what they write should be their own. It is taken for granted. But who made the rule? Why? And how is it enforced? This dissertation traces the history of proprietary authorship from the earliest distinctions between …