ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together several threads of analysis and places copyright development in East Central and Southeast Europe in regional, European and international context. Through comparative juxtaposition, it illuminates select topics such as the role of continuities, traditions, strategies, actors and stakeholders, master narratives and institutional paths, and presents theses and conclusions regarding the trajectory of copyright development in the late nineteenth century, up to and including the interwar period. Among the themes discussed are strategies of governance in the Berne Union, the influence of imperial legacies in the conception of national copyright legislation, the rise of new media in the twentieth century and their effect on copyright regulation, the nature of copyright regimes in interwar Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, trends regarding social rights and the regulation of intellectual labor in the interwar period, the rise of collecting societies and intermediary agents from the late nineteenth century, as well as the outlook and artistic philosophy of intellectual avant-gardes in the interwar period.
