Colonial copyright intellectual property in mandate palestine english edition ebook birnhack michael d amazonde kindle shop. The book suggests a general model of colonial copyright understood as the intersection of legal transplants colonial law and the particular features of copyright especially authorship mandate palestine 1917 48 is the leading case study the book tells a yet untold history of copyright law that was the basis of israeli law and still is the law in the palestinian authority the discussion is a critical cultural legal history told from a postcolonial stance it queries the british . On the one hand the income tax ordinance which was enacted by the british in palestine in 1941 was based on a one size fits all colonial model and the lawyers involved in its enactment in . The book explores the legal history of copyright law in the british empire during the first decades of the twentieth century by focusing on mandate palestine 1917 48 as a leading case study it is a story about the use of law as a tool to secure british interests throughout the empire but also as a tool applied to promote progress and culture at least according to the imperial vision of . Michael d birnhack colonial copyright intellectual property in mandate palestine sprache englisch buch gebunden bei ebookde