In the United States, laws about this subject are based on the Consequentialist school of thought, and this concept is criticized by David Levine.
Lyman Ray Patterson wrote a 1968 book on this concept "in Historical Perspective". Melville Nimmer wrote a seminal 1963 treatise on this concept. In Great Britain, this concept was the subject of the 1762 case Tonson v. Collins and one exception to this concept was created in the 1741 case Gyles v. Wilcox. This concept became part of British law by the 1710 Statue of Anne, and in 2005 the British thinker Simon Moores published a paper on this concept titled "March of the Spiders". This concept is the subject of the Berne Convention, which regulates its international use. In the United States, laws about this subject are based on the Consequentialist school of thought, and this concept is criticized by David Levine. When the final syllable of this concept is replaced with "left", it describes systems such as the GNU, and the "poor man's" variety of this concept involves mailing to one's self. For ten points, name this legal concept which gives authors the right to control their creations.
Lyman Ray Patterson wrote a 1968 book on this concept "in Historical Perspective".
{copyright} [prompt on “{intellectual property}” until “{left}”]