The copyright wars: three centuries of trans-Atlantic battle

Introduction : The agon of author and audience

The battle between Anglo-American copyright and European authors' rights

From royal privilege to literary property : a common start to copyright in the eighteenth century

The ways part : copyright and authors' rights in the nineteenth century

Continental drift : Europe moves from property to personality at the turn of the century

The strange birth of moral rights in Fascist Europe

The postwar apotheosis of authors' rights

America turns European : the battle of the booksellers redux in the 1990s

The rise of the digital public : the copyright wars continue in the new millennium

Conclusion: Reclaiming the spirit of copyright.