About the Book
Copinger, Walter.
The Law of Copyright, In Works of Literature and Art: Including that of Drama, Music, Engraving, Sculpture, Painting, Photography and Ornamental and Useful Designs; Together with International and Foreign Copyright, With the Statutes Relating Thereto, and Reference to the English and American Decisions. London: Stevens and Haynes, 1870. xxiii, xxii, 266, cl pp. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. With a new introduction by Ronan Deazley, Reader, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-896-7. ISBN-10: 1-58477-896-2. Cloth. $150.
* Reprint of the first edition. In History of English Law Holdsworth discusses Copinger's book in his selective survey of legal literature in Volume XV, The Age of Reform (1833-1875): "A standard book on the law of copyright was published by W.A. Copinger [1847-1910] in 1870. It deals very fully with the history and the statute law as to literary copyright; as to Crown and university and college copyright; as to musical, dramatic, and artistic copyright, and copyright in designs; as to international copyright and copyright in foreign countries; and as to agreements between authors and publishers. The merits of the book are proved by the fact that is reached a ninth edition in 1958" (XV:299-300).