The War of the Booksellers: Hinton v Donaldson

Hector MacQueen

The War of the Booksellers: Hinton v Donaldson

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Abstract

An account of the background, the parties, the lawyers and the judges in the great 1773 case on literary property which decided that in Scotland (unlike England) the law was based only on statute. The House of Lords in England followed suit the next year, giving copyright law a legal character which it has retained down to the present day.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Pronounced for Doom
Editors	John P. Grant, Elaine E. Sutherland
Publisher	Avizandum
Pages	178-94
ISBN (Print)	9781904968658
Publication status	Published - 2013

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The war of the booksellers: Natural law, equity, and literary property in eighteenth-century Scotland
MacQueen, H., Dec 2014, In: The Journal of Legal History. 35, 3, p. 231-257
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The War of the Booksellers: Hinton v Donaldson

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The war of the booksellers: Natural law, equity, and literary property in eighteenth-century Scotland

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