Catherine Seville

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Catherine Seville (born August 12, 1963 - † February 4, 2016 ) was a British legal scholar who particularly distinguished herself in the field of copyright law . Most recently she was a reader at the University of Cambridge Law School .

Life

Seville first studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music ( B.Mus. , 1984) and English at the University of Cambridge ( MA ) before switching to law there, where she graduated in 1986 as a Bachelor of Arts . In 1991 she became a Fellow of Newnham College , Cambridge, four years later its Director of Studies for Law. She received her PhD on the reform of written copyright law at the beginning of the Victorian era (Cambridge University Press, 1999; awarded the Faculty's Yorke Prize ). Seville was a Lecturer between 1995 and 2010 , then Senior Lecturer and finally Reader in Law from 2013 . In parallel to her teaching and research activities, she was Vice Principal of Newnham College between 2004 and 2015 .

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Seville's publications focus on copyright issues, especially those with a historical impact. Most recently she worked on the development of copyright law on dramatic works in the 19th century. The second edition of her textbook on Intellectual Property Law in the European Union was published posthumously in 2016 (Elgar).

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England: The Framing of the 1842 Copyright Act . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-62175-5 .
  • The Internationalization of Copyright Law: Books, Buccaneers and the Black Flag in the Nineteenth Century . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-86816-7 .
  • EU Intellectual Property Law and Policy . 2nd Edition. Elgar, Cheltenham 2016, ISBN 978-1-78100-345-9 . (1st edition 2009)

Contributions

  • Copyright's bargain - defining our terms . In: Intellectual Property Quarterly . tape 7 , no. 3 , 2003, p. 312-341 .
  • Peter Pan's Rights: “To Die Will Be an Awfully Big Adventure” . In: Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA Band 51 , no. 1 , 2003, p. 1-77 . ( HeinOnline , not freely accessible)
  • Commanding the Cs to retreat? Lessons in copyright governance from the nineteenth century . In: Intellectual Property Quarterly . No. 2 , 2006, p. 73-90 .
  • Edward Bulwer Lytton Dreams of Copyright: 'It might make me a rich man' . In: Francis O'Gorman (Ed.): Victorian Literature and Finance . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-928192-3 , pp. 55-72 .
  • From pirates to eagles: America's changing view of copyright . In: European Intellectual Property Review . tape 29 , no. 10 , 2007, p. 406-410 .
  • Authors as Copyright Campaigners: Mark Twain's Legacy . In: Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA Band 55 , no. 2–3 , 2008, pp. 283-359 . ( HeinOnline , not freely accessible)
  • Copyright . In: David McKitterick (Ed.): The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume VI: 1830-1914 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-86624-8 , pp. 214-237 , doi : 10.1017 / CHOL9780521866248.007 .
  • Nineteenth-century Anglo – US copyright relations: the language of piracy versus the moral high ground . In: Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davies, Jane C. Ginsburg (Eds.): Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-19343-6 , pp. 19-43 , doi : 10.1017 / CBO9780511761577.003 .
  • The Statute of Anne: Rhetoric and Reception in the Nineteenth Century . In: Houston Law Review . tape 47 , no. 4 , 2010, p. 819-876 . ( HeinOnline , not freely accessible)
  • Rhetoric and Reality: The Impact of Constitutional and Fundamental Rights on Intellectual Property Law, as Revealed in the World of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing . In: Ansgar Ohly, Justine Pila (Ed.): The Europeanization of Intellectual Property Law: Towards a European Legal Methodology . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-966510-5 , pp. 165-181 , doi : 10.1093 / acprof: oso / 9780199665105.003.0009 .
  • The principles of international intellectual property protection: from Paris to Marrakesh . In: The WIPO Journal . tape 5 , no. 1 , 2013, p. 95-104 .
  • British colonial and imperial copyright . In: Isabella Alexander, H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui (eds.): Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law (=  Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property ). Elgar, Cheltenham, Northampton 2016, ISBN 978-1-78347-239-0 , pp. 268-287 .

Web links

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Bently, In memoriam: Dr Catherine Seville , op. Cit., P. 1; Newnham College, Dr Catherine Seville ( September 21, 2015 memento on the Internet Archive ) (archived September 21, 2015 via the Internet Archive ), accessed May 6, 2017.
  2. ^ Bently, In memoriam: Dr Catherine Seville , op.cit., P. 5.
  3. ↑ Preliminary remark by Roderick Munday in Seville, EU Intellectual Property Law and Policy , 2nd ed. 2016, op.cit., P.
personal data
SURNAME Seville, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1963
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 2016