Neil Weinstock Netanel is the Pete Kameron Endowed Chair in Law at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law where he writes and teaches in the areas of copyright, international intellectual property, and media and telecommunications. Prior to joining UCLA, Netanel served for a decade on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was the Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professor of Law. He has also taught at the law schools of Harvard University, Haifa University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, the University of Toronto, and New York University. He authored Copyright's Paradox (Oxford, 2008; Paperback, 2010); and he edited The Development Agenda: Global Intellectual Property and Developing Countries (Oxford, 2008).David Nimmer is a Professor from Practice at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, and Of Counsel to the law firm of Irell & Manella. Since 1985, Professor Nimmer has updated and revised Nimmer on Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the field, regularly relied upon as an authority by courts and commentators the world over. He is also the author of Copyright: Sacred Text, Technology and the DMCA (2003).

• Preface Note Regarding Translation and Transliteration 1 Introduction: Microsoft in Bnei Brak 2 From Privileges and Printers' Guilds to Copyright 3 Rabbinic Reprinting Bans: Between Ktav Da'at and Privilege 4 Maharam of Padua versus Giustiniani: Rival Editions of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah 5 Rabbinic Reprinting Bans Take Hold 6 From a Yiddish Bible to a German Prayer Book 7 Internecine Battles and the Slavuta Talmud 8 Moving Beyond Reprinting Bans: From Property to the Law of the Sovereign 9 The Present-Day Debate: Is Copyright Infringement "Stealing"? Bibliography Glossary Index

Neil Netanel's From Maimonides to Microsoft takes us on an exciting journey from the beginnings of Jewish legal experts' coping with copyright issues, a few decades after the birth of print, to nineteenth-century European Humanism. ... of great interest not only to the legal expert but also to the historian of Judaism.

Neil Weinstock Netanel is the Pete Kameron Endowed Chair in Law at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law where he writes and teaches in the areas of copyright, international intellectual property, and media and telecommunications. Prior to joining UCLA, Netanel served for a decade on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was the Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professor of Law. He has also taught at the law schools of Harvard University, Haifa University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, the University of Toronto, and New York University. He authored Copyright's Paradox (Oxford, 2008; Paperback, 2010); and he edited The Development Agenda: Global Intellectual Property and Developing Countries (Oxford, 2008).David Nimmer is a Professor from Practice at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, and Of Counsel to the law firm of Irell & Manella. Since 1985, Professor Nimmer has updated and revised Nimmer on Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the field, regularly relied upon as an authority by courts and commentators the world over. He is also the author of Copyright: Sacred Text, Technology and the DMCA (2003).

• Preface Note Regarding Translation and Transliteration 1 Introduction: Microsoft in Bnei Brak 2 From Privileges and Printers' Guilds to Copyright 3 Rabbinic Reprinting Bans: Between Ktav Da'at and Privilege 4 Maharam of Padua versus Giustiniani: Rival Editions of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah 5 Rabbinic Reprinting Bans Take Hold 6 From a Yiddish Bible to a German Prayer Book 7 Internecine Battles and the Slavuta Talmud 8 Moving Beyond Reprinting Bans: From Property to the Law of the Sovereign 9 The Present-Day Debate: Is Copyright Infringement "Stealing"? Bibliography Glossary Index

Neil Netanel's From Maimonides to Microsoft takes us on an exciting journey from the beginnings of Jewish legal experts' coping with copyright issues, a few decades after the birth of print, to nineteenth-century European Humanism. ... of great interest not only to the legal expert but also to the historian of Judaism.

Neil Weinstock Netanel is the Pete Kameron Endowed Chair in Law at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law where he writes and teaches in the areas of copyright, international intellectual property, and media and telecommunications. Prior to joining UCLA, Netanel served for a decade on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was the Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professor of Law. He has also taught at the law schools of Harvard University, Haifa University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, the University of Toronto, and New York University. He authored Copyright's Paradox (Oxford, 2008; Paperback, 2010); and he edited The Development Agenda: Global Intellectual Property and Developing Countries (Oxford, 2008).David Nimmer is a Professor from Practice at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, and Of Counsel to the law firm of Irell & Manella. Since 1985, Professor Nimmer has updated and revised Nimmer on Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the field, regularly relied upon as an authority by courts and commentators the world over. He is also the author of Copyright: Sacred Text, Technology and the DMCA (2003).

• Preface Note Regarding Translation and Transliteration 1 Introduction: Microsoft in Bnei Brak 2 From Privileges and Printers' Guilds to Copyright 3 Rabbinic Reprinting Bans: Between Ktav Da'at and Privilege 4 Maharam of Padua versus Giustiniani: Rival Editions of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah 5 Rabbinic Reprinting Bans Take Hold 6 From a Yiddish Bible to a German Prayer Book 7 Internecine Battles and the Slavuta Talmud 8 Moving Beyond Reprinting Bans: From Property to the Law of the Sovereign 9 The Present-Day Debate: Is Copyright Infringement "Stealing"? Bibliography Glossary Index

Neil Netanel's From Maimonides to Microsoft takes us on an exciting journey from the beginnings of Jewish legal experts' coping with copyright issues, a few decades after the birth of print, to nineteenth-century European Humanism. ... of great interest not only to the legal expert but also to the historian of Judaism.