Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Owning News in an Age of Censorship and Monopoly 15
6. Chapter 2. Toward a Culture of Copying in Eighteenth-Century Britain 51
7. Chapter 3. Scissors Editors: Cutting and Pasting in Early America 87
8. Chapter 4. Market News and the Limits of Copyright in Nineteenth-Century America 117
9. Chapter 5. Debating Copyright for News in Industrial Britain 143
10. Chapter 6. Press Associations and the Quest for Exclusivity in the United States 191
11. Chapter 7. International News Service v. Associated Press and Its Legacy 227
12. Epilogue. The View from the Digital Age 271
13. Abbreviations Used in the Notes and a Note on Newspaper Sources 287
14. Notes 289
15. Index 339