📚 Copyright

The right to copy, bounded: Statute of Anne to streaming licensing, and every piracy panic in between.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject copyright in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Philosophy in a new key	Susanne Katherina (Knauth) Langer	1942	44
	Media & Entertainment Law	Ursula Smartt	2011	21
	Urheberrecht	Artur-Axel Wandtke	2009	19
	Legislación sobre derechos de autor	Mexico.	1980	14
	Musician's Business & Legal Guide	Mark Halloran	2001	14
	All You Need to Know About the Music Business	Donald S. Passman	1991	13
	Copyright, trademarks, and patent	Abraham Drassinower	2015	13
	Copyright	Cornish, G. P.	1990	12
	The copyright handbook	Stephen Fishman	1992	12
	This business of music	M. William Krasilovsky	1971	11
	All you need to know about the music business	Donald S. Passman	1991	11
	Copyright law	Craig Joyce	1994	10
	Copyright in a global information economy	Julie E. Cohen	2010	10
	The rhetoric of intellectual property	Jessica Reyman	2009	9
	Prawo autorskie	Poland.	1965	8
	Express line	Library of Congress. Copyright Office.	1979	8
	Remix	Lawrence Lessig	2008	8
	Nimmer on copyright	Melville B. Nimmer	1963	7
	Urheber- und Verlagsrecht	Germany (West)	1974	7
	The copyright book	William S. Strong	1993	7
	Music and copyright	Simon Frith	2004	7
	The law of copyright	Scrutton, Thomas Edward Sir	1890	6
	Copyright	Rand McNally	1957	6
	Copyright law revision	Library of Congress. Copyright Office.	1960	6
	Código do direito de autor e dos direitos conexos	Portugal.	1985	6
	Propriété littéraire et artistique	Pierre-Yves Gautier	1991	6
	Kohn on music licensing	Al Kohn	1996	6
	The public domain	Stephen Fishman	2001	6
	International Copyright	Paul Goldstein	2001	6
	The Internationalisation of Copyright Law	Catherine Seville	2006	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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