From Maimonides to Microsoft: the Jewish law of copyright since the birth of print
From Maimonides to Microsoft traces the historical development of Jewish copyright law by comparing rabbinic reprinting bans with secular and papal book privileges and by relaying the stories of dramatic disputes among publishers of books of Jewish learning and liturgy.. He describes each dispute in...
| Résumé: | From Maimonides to Microsoft traces the historical development of Jewish copyright law by comparing rabbinic reprinting bans with secular and papal book privileges and by relaying the stories of dramatic disputes among publishers of books of Jewish learning and liturgy.. He describes each dispute in its historical context and examines the rabbinic rulings that sought to resolve it. Remarkably, the rabbinic reprinting bans and copyright rulings address some of the same issues that animate copyright jurisprudence today: Is copyright a property right or just a right to receive fair compensation? How long should copyrights last? What purposes does copyright serve? While Jewish copyright law has borrowed from its secular law counterpart at key junctures, it fashions strikingly different answers to those key questions. Cover -- From Maimonides to Microsoft -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration, Translation, Acronyms, Word Choice, and Dates -- 1. Introduction: Microsoft in Bnei Brak -- I. A Rabbinic Court Edict -- II. What is Jewish Copyright Law? -- III. The Normative and Institutional Framework of Jewish Law -- IV. Creative Borrowing, Pragmatism, and Coercion -- V. Mapping Our Journey -- 2. From Privileges and Printers' Guilds to Copyright -- I. Book Privileges and the Early Modern European Book Trade -- II. Book Privileges and Copyright Compared -- III. The Schlick Privilege of 1511 -- IV. Grounds for Granting Privileges -- V. Scope of Protection and Territorial Limitations -- VI. Duration and Novelty -- VII. Authors -- VIII. Conditions for Enjoying Privilege -- IX. Penalties and Enforcement -- X. Printers' Guilds -- XI. Copyright and Literary Property -- 3. Rabbinic Reprinting Bans: Between Ktav Dat and Privilege -- I. The First Rabbinic Reprinting Ban -- II. Borrowing From Book Privileges -- III. Delayed Adoption of Rabbinic Reprinting Bans -- 4. Maharam of Padua versus Giustiniani: Rival Editions of Maimonides's Mishneh Torah -- I. The Maharam, Moses Isserles, and the Mishneh Torah -- A. The Market -- B. Communal Ties -- C. Intellectual Kinship -- 1. Maimonidean Rationalism -- 2. The Codification Project -- 3. Broad Tent -- II. The Competing Editions -- III. The Rema's Ruling -- A. Noaḥide Law -- B. Gezel -- C. Wrongful Competition: Encroaching on Another's Livelihood -- D. Abetting in a Transgression -- E. Anxiety over Print -- F. Scribal Error -- G. Suspicion of Christian Printers -- H. Decree -- IV. Postscript -- 5. Rabbinic Reprinting Bans Take Hold -- I. Rabbinic Reprinting Bans in Venice -- II. Jewish Council Regulation of the Book Trade -- III. Proliferation of Rabbinic Reprinting Bans. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0199707332 |