1st Edition

Contesting Copyright A History of Intellectual Property in East Central Europe and the Balkans

By Augusta Dimou Copyright 2025
504 Pages
by Central European University Press

The creative sector, including the cultural industry, is key for today’s economy. Copyright has the capacity to x the roles and tasks of the actors involved and determine the direction of cash ows within this sector. The study of the evolution of copyright helps understand and adjust the regulation and commercialization of creative labor. Augusta Dimou provides a thoroughly researched,... Read more

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Where It All Started: Translation

The Empires of East and Southeast Europe

The Expansion of Copyright in Eastern Europe: Preconditions of Development and European Comparisons

Comparisons: Europe and Beyond

Orchestrated Globalization: The Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights in Southeast and East Central Europe in the Context of World War I

Interwar Bulgaria

Interwar Yugoslavia

Interwar Czechoslovakia

Comparative Perspectives on National, Regional, International and Transnational Trajectories up to and Including the Interwar Period

Communist Copyright

Conclusions: COPYRIGHT IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST EUROPE—A LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE

Sources and Bibliography

Index

Biography

Augusta Dimou specializes in the Modern History of East and Southeast Europe from a comparative, transnational perspective. She is Privatdozentin at the Institute for the Study of Culture of the University of Leipzig and has held academic positions at the University of Ioannina, Humboldt University in Berlin, IOS-Regensburg and GWZO in Leipzig. She has been a fellow at Maison des Sciences de l’ Homme (Paris), IWM (Vienna), FRIAS (Freiburg), CAS (Sofia) and New Europe College (NEC) in Bucharest.