Literary property

Literary property is a common law form of intellectual property that protects an author's creative rights in their work. ^[1] The concept has been traced back to John Milton's April 1667 publication contract for Paradise Lost with Samuel Simmons. ^[2]

See also

• Copyright
• Moral rights
• Personality rights

References

1. Feather 2020, p. 747.
2. Ng 2012, pp. 533–535; Rodzvilla 2020, pp. 965–966.

Sources

• Feather, John (2020). "Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property" . In Eliot, Simon; Rose, Jonathan (eds.). A Companion to the History of the Book . Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture no. 102. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 743–757. doi:10.1002/9781119018193.ch49. ISBN   978-1-119-01817-9.
• Ng, Alina (October 2012). "Literary Property and Copyright". Articles. Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. 10 (7): 531–577. Archived from the original on 1 March 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2025– via Mississippi College School of Law Digital Commons.
• Rodzvilla, John (2020). "Literary Property" . In Merskin, Debra L. (ed.). The Sage International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. Vol. 5. Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Sage Publications. pp. 965–968. doi:10.4135/9781483375519.n372. ISBN   978-1-483-37551-9 . Retrieved 19 June 2025.