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Added on Jan 19th, 2008

This conference is the launch event for the research produced by the AHRC Primary Sources on Copyright History Project. This project collects key historic resources from the time of the invention of the printing press (1450 or so) to the Berne Convention (1886). Ronan Deazley is the national editor for the UK portion of the project, and Oren Bracha of the University of Texas (your rapporteur’s alma mater) is the national editor for the US. Each national editor — which includes Italy, France, and Germany — is to select 20 or 50 key documents for the project. From the site:

This two day conference is the culmination of a research project involving the creation of a digital resource concerning the history of copyright in five key jurisdictions; France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, for the period before 1900. The project involves the selection of certain key documents, their digitisation, transcription, and translation. The project will create a free electronic archive of primary sources from the invention of the printing press (ca1450) to the Berne Convention (1886): in facsimile and transcription, translated and key word searchable.

Keynotes: Professor Mark Rose University of California Santa Barbara , Professor Laurent Pfister University of Versailles Saint-Quentin and Professor Karl Nikolaus Peifer Köln University.

Location: Stationers Hall, London

Registration information and full details available on the Conference website.