Lord Mansfield i narodziny prawa autorskiego

Abstrakt

The main goal of the article is to present a profile of the eminent english judge William murray, known primarily as the lord of mansfield, and his case law. The Author identifies a number of factors that determined his unique and exceptional philosophy of judging, especially the attempt to combine common law, equity and Roman law. The article focuses primarily on one chosen field - copyright, the foundations of which were formed in the eighteenth century, and two judgments in the cases Millar v. Taylor (1769) and Donaldson v. Beckett (1774).