The Ideology of Authorship Revisited: Authors, Markets, and Liberal Values in Early American Copyright

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A U T H 0 R. Assistant Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law. For invaluable advice and criticism, I thank William Forbath and Talha Syed. For useful comments, I thank Michael Carroll, Anuj Desai, Chris Desan, Terry Fisher, Catherine Fisk, Mark Gergen, John Golden, Morton Horwitz, Douglas Laycock, Thomas Nachbar, Tony Reese, Mark Rose, Pamela Samuelson, and participants in the Harvard Law School graduate students colloquium and in the History of Copyright Workshop of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies. For excellent research assistance, I thank Gretchen Harting.