The Literary Vision of Copyright

Matthew Pearl, best-selling author and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard Law School participated in the Berkman Center Luncheon Series this afternoon to discuss: "The Literary Vision of Copyright."

Derived from his current course at HLS, Pearl considered how literary titans such as Twain, Dickens, Poe, and Whitman confronted copyright transitions in their time. From copyright clubs and associations that transformed the intellectual property map, to modern rhetoric about intellectual property and the large role it may continue to play separate from legal realities. 

About Matthew

Matthew Pearl's debut novel, The Dante Club, has been an international bestseller translated into more than 30 languages. His highly anticipated second novel, The Poe Shadow is another New York Times and international bestseller. Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and American Literature in 1997 and Yale Law School in 2000. He has taught literature and creative writing at Harvard University and Emerson College, and has been a Visiting Lecturer in law and literature at Harvard Law School. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he is at work on his third novel.

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