RESEARCH PROJECT - CAMBRIDGE
Patrícia Akester & Victor Drummond
are editores of the Portuguese-Brazilian side of a copyright research project on the
Primary Sources on Copyright
Patricia Akester is an
associate
with the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge, since 2012, where she devoted herself to research and teaching between 2002 and 2012. In 2006 she was awarded a
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
See information about the project below
Primary Sources on Copyright History (1450-1900) is a «digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond.
The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded the initial phase (completed in 2008) focusing on key materials from Renaissance Italy (Venice, Rome), France, the German speaking countries, Britain and the United States.
We continue to add new materials. Primary sources from Spain were published in 2012, and the Netherlands followed in 2015. Jewish law sources, edited by Neil Netanel, were published in 2016.
In 2018, Elena Cooper joined Ronan Deazley as co-editor of the British Sources, adding further documents illustrating distinct aspects of the history of copyright concerning the visual arts in the late nineteenth century (in the main, 1869-1900).
For each of the geographical zones/jurisdictions, national editors take responsibility for selecting, sourcing, transcribing, translating and commenting documents. These include privileges, statutes, judicial decisions, contracts and materials relating to legislative history, but also contemporary letters, essays, treatises and artefacts.»
General editors: L. Bently & M. Kretschmer
Editors for Portugal & Brazil:
Patricia Akester & Victor Drummond