Category Archives: Publishing business models

In my recent post, The value chain strikes back: Google and the history of copyright,  I touched on the threat of internet piracy, which is a highly contentious issue at the moment throughout the digital industries. In researching that piece I came across some interesting historical sidelights on book piracy, which deserve more attention than [...]

In an article in the London Review of Books in 1995 John Sutherland wrote: ‘Momentous changes in copyright law, such as those of 1710, 1842, 1890 and 1911, are preceded by periods of turmoil and radical uncertainty about the rights and wrongs of intellectual property. We are in such a period now.’
Sutherland could hardly have [...]