The document discusses the history of copyright law from its origins with Gutenberg and the Stationers' Company through various acts and statutes up to modern digital copyright issues. It traces how copyright law developed in response to new technologies like printing presses and how concepts of copying and reproduction have been applied to digital works. The document also discusses the role of moral panics around issues like file sharing in shaping perceptions of copyright criminality.

1. Copyright Criminality: The construction of a Moral Panic

2. Origins

3. Gutenberg

4. The Stationer's Company

5. Letters Patent

6. Statute of Monopolies of 1623

7. Licensing Act of 1662

8. "An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses."

10. Donaldson v Beckett, 98 Eng. Rep. 257 (1774)

13. Digital

17. DMCA

18. World Intellectual Property Organisation Copyright Treaty

19. Technical Protection Measures

20. Anti-circumvention

21. Secondary liability

23. How did we end up here?

25. Moral Panic

26. Moral Panic "a condition, episode, person or group of persons [who] become defined as a threat to societal values and interests." Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Cohen, 1987: 9

31. (in)conclusions

32. Digitisation and Copyright

39. adaptation

40. What rights does someone who digitises a work acquire?

41. originality?

42. independent skill and effort

43. new material

44. “ the improvement or refinement is not superficial. The alteration to the original work must be substantial.”

45. “ But copying, per se, however much skill or labour may be devoted to the process, cannot make an original work.’ (Interlego A G v Tyco Industries Inc [1989] AC 217 (PC) at 263)