2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Authorship, the 19thcentury British copyright law, and the plays ofDion Boucicault

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23720141
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Kushiro Public University of Economics
Principal Investigator	MATSUURA Aiko 釧路公立大学, 経済学部, 講師 (70457919)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	19世紀英国著作権法 / 劇出版 / Dion Boucicault
Research Abstract	This research project explores the notion of authorship as understood by playwrights active in the mid Victorian period through court cases of Dion Boucicault. The popular playwright predated the legal protection of intellectual property across the Atlantic at the end of the century, but a glimpse of his court cases in this period suggests the mismatch of old legal vocabulary with the new reality of an increasingly fluid contemporary print culture across the Atlantic.

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