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Martha Woodmansee, The Genius and the Copyright: Economic and Legal Conditions of the Emergence of the 'Author', Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4, Special Issue: The Printed Word in the Eighteenth Century (Summer, 1984), pp. 425-448
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