Contesting Copyright

A History of Intellectual Property in East Central Europe and the Balkans
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-963-386-614-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1090 g

Reihe: Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe - CEU Press

The creative sector, including the cultural industry, is key for today’s economy. Copyright has the capacity to x the roles and tasks of the actors involved and determine the direction of cash ows within this sector. The study of the evolution of copyright helps understand and adjust the regulation and commercialization of creative labor. Augusta Dimou provides a thoroughly researched, interdisciplinary and comparative study of the historical development of copyright regimes in three countries – Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. She examines the function and signi cance of copyright in the institutionalization, development, and regulation of modern culture in East Central Europe and the Balkans during the diverse political regimes of the modern era, and at the interface between the various nationalization and globalization processes of the 20th century.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimou, Augusta

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Where It All Started: Translation The Empires of East and Southeast Europe The Expansion of Copyright in Eastern Europe: Preconditions of Development and European Comparisons Comparisons: Europe and Beyond Orchestrated Globalization: The Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights in Southeast and East Central Europe in the Context of World War I Interwar Bulgaria Interwar Yugoslavia Interwar Czechoslovakia Comparative Perspectives on National, Regional, International and Transnational Trajectories up to and Including the Interwar Period Communist Copyright Conclusions: COPYRIGHT IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST EUROPE—A LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE Sources and Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Augusta Dimou specializes in the Modern History of East and Southeast Europe from a comparative, transnational perspective. She is Privatdozentin at the Institute for the Study of Culture of the University of Leipzig and has held academic positions at the University of Ioannina, Humboldt University in Berlin, IOS-Regensburg and GWZO in Leipzig. She has been a fellow at Maison des Sciences de l’ Homme (Paris), IWM (Vienna), FRIAS (Freiburg), CAS (Sofia) and New Europe College (NEC) in Bucharest.