Who Owns the News?

Introduction -- Owning news in an age of censorship and monopoly -- Toward a culture of copying in eighteenth-century Britain -- Scissors editors : cutting and pasting in early America -- Market news and the limits of copyright in nineteenth-century America -- Debating copyright for news in industrial Britain -- Press associations and the quest for exclusivity in the United States -- International News Service v. Associated Press and its legacy -- Epilogue : the view from the digital age