Politics in Publishing

Maj Hartmann


Engels | 25-09-2024 | 260 pagina's

9789462704299

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Non-Western perspective on the international history of intellectual property rights

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Politics in Publishing focuses on Japan’s involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country’s 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first multilateral copyright treaty. During this time, Japanese state officials collaborated with various stakeholders such as publishers, translators, and legal experts to strategically influence the international revision process of the treaty. The involvement of these actors in international organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations affected global copyright norms even as Japan advanced its imperial – national after 1945 – and capitalist interests. Taking a previously lacking non-Western perspective on the history of international copyright law, Politics in Publishing highlights the complex interplay between state and private actors and between domestic and international power relations, as well as administrative transformations in the formation of the modern, global international order. Grounded in an impressive body of primary source material, this book will make a substantial contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on intellectual property, and copyright history in particular.

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Politics in Publishing focuses on Japan’s involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country’s 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first multilateral copyright treaty. During this time, Japanese state officials collaborated with various stakeholders such as publishers, translators, and legal experts to strategically influence the international revision process of the treaty. The involvement of these actors in international organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations affected global copyright norms even as Japan advanced its imperial – national after 1945 – and capitalist interests. Taking a previously lacking non-Western perspective on the history of international copyright law, Politics in Publishing highlights the complex interplay between state and private actors and between domestic and international power relations, as well as administrative transformations in the formation of the modern, global international order. Grounded in an impressive body of primary source material, this book will make a substantial contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on intellectual property, and copyright history in particular.

Biografie

Maj Hartmann is a postdoctoral researcher in political history in the Japanese Studies Research Group of the KU Leuven Faculty of Arts.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTE ON JAPANESE NAMES AND TRANSLATION ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION. POLITICS IN PUBLISHING CHAPTER 1. BEFORE BERNE: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BERNE CONVENTION AND THE OPPOSITION OF JAPAN’S PUBLISHING INDUSTRY The Development of Copyright Protection in Japan Japan’s Early Internationalists and the Institutional Foundations for State- Society Cooperation The Emergence of an Opposition Movement CHAPTER 2. AN UNPREDICTED DEMAND: JAPANESE PUBLISHERS BETWEEN THE ACCESSION TO THE BERNE CONVENTION AND WORLD WAR I The Copyright Conference of 1900 and the Double Standard of Japanese Publishers The 1908 Berlin Revision Conference and Japan’s Proposal for Free Translation Rights Japanese Publishers and the Berne Convention During World War I CHAPTER 3. DEFENDING THE EXCEPTION: COPYRIGHT NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE FOUNDING OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE 1928 ROME REVISION CONFERENCE The League of Nations and New Structures of International Intellectual Cooperation The Re-emergence of the Copyright Problem Japan’s National Committee on Intellectual Cooperation Business-State Cooperation in the Preparations of the 1928 Rome Revision Conference The 1928 Rome Revision Conference and Japan’s Request for an Exemption from the Translation Right Regulations CHAPTER 4. EXPANDING GLOBAL VISIBILITY: JAPANESE COPYRIGHT EXPERTS AND THE STATE DURING THE 1930S COPYRIGHT NEGOTIATIONS Intensifying Cultural Cooperation Versus International Isolation The Establishment of Copyright Advisory Councils The Paris Committee of Experts and the Second General Meeting of the National Committees Preparations of the Brussels Revision Conference and the Second Expert Meeting Reactions by the Transnational Copyright Community Outbreak of World War II CHAPTER 5. TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE: PUBLISHERS, TRANSLATORS, AND UNESCO IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD The Continuation of International Copyright Negotiations under SCAP and UNESCO Japan’s Reentry into the Transnational Copyright Community Post-Occupation Changes and the Universal Copyright Convention The Return of the Publishers The 1967 Stockholm Revision Conference and the Promotion of the Publishing Sector in Developing Countries CONCLUSION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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EAN :9789462704299
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Uitgever :Universitaire Pers Leuven
Publicatie datum :  25-09-2024
Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
Taal/Talen : Engels
Hoogte :237 mm
Breedte :159 mm
Dikte :17 mm
Gewicht :429 gr
Status : Bestelbaar
Aantal pagina's :260
Keywords :  berne convention;intellectual property rights;international copyright law;international organizations;japan;league of nations;publishing history;unesco;universal copyright convention