[1] From: Harold Short <Harold.Short@kcl.ac.uk> (83)
Subject: Press Release: Textual Monopolies
[2] From: Khalid Choukri <elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr> (107)
Subject: ELRA Press release
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 13:41:24 +0100
From: Harold Short <Harold.Short@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Press Release: Textual Monopolies
Textual Monopolies:
Literary copyright & the public domain
This important and ground-breaking volume of essays edited by
Patrick Parrinder and Warren Chernaik, is published on 28 May
1997. It is a joint publication of University of London's Centre
for English Studies (CES) and the Office for Humanities
Communication (OHC), based at King's College London. Textual
Monopolies is published in the same OHC/CES series as Beyond the
Book and The Politics of the Electronic Text.
The essays are based on papers at a conference at CES in December
1994, occasioned by changes in copyright law brought about by a
1993 European Directive, and have been brought up to date to
reflect significant developments since that time. According to
John Sutherland's preface, 'the London conference on copyright
proved extraordinarily educative for those attending. It enlarged
horizons and created points of intellectual connection between
traditionally separated sectors of the book world and the academic
community, publicising an issue of cultural importance that was in
danger of passing into law without anyone noticing'. Contributors
to the volume include legal and literary scholars, publishers, and
authors, expressing both practical and political concerns, in a
searching consideration of changing ideas of intellectual property
in the electronic age.
According to Richard Morrison in the Times, May 17, 1997, this
collection of essays is a 'real gem', 'compulsive reading'. 'a
brilliant anaylsis': 'I have been riveted, enthralled, consumed to
the exclusion of all other matters, by the marvellous Textual
Monopolies ... If you want to glimpse human nature, red in tooth,
claw, and legal fees, then Textual Monopolies ... is required
reading'.
Contents include:
* Foreword by John Sutherland.
* Introduction by Patrick Parrinder: Literary copyright and the
public domain.
* Brad Sherman and Lionel Bently: Balance and harmony in the
duration of copyright: the European Directive and its
consequences.
* Kate Pool: Authors and the European Directive.
* Clive Reynard: The impact of the European Directive on
inexpensive reprint editions.
* Patrick Parrinder: Licensing scholarship: some encounters with
the Wells Estate.
* Warwick Gould: Predators and editors: Yeats in the pre- and
post-copyright era.
* John Worthen: D.H. Lawrence and copyright.
* Charles Oppenheim: Copyright in the electronic age.
* Fiona Macmillan Patfield: Legal policy and the limits of
literary copyright.
* Christopher Scarles: Quote and be blessed.
Copies can be ordered now from the OHC at a cost of 12.50 pounds
sterling plus postage and packing.
Orders should be sent to the Office for Humanities Communication,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, enclosing a cheque made payable to 'King's
College London'.
Addition for postage and packing per copy: UK - 1 pound,
Europe - 2 pounds, and outside Europe - 3 pounds.
(Payment is accepted in EU currencies, and in US or Canadian
dollars. Please convert at current exchange rate.)
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Harold Short, Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
Harold.Short@kcl.ac.uk; Tel: +44 (0)171 873 2739; Fax: +44 (0)171 873
5081
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Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:32:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Khalid Choukri <elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr>
Subject: ELRA Press release
ELRA
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focus is on Europe, ELRA also seeks active cooperation and exchange of
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