Meredith L. McGill

Meredith L. McGill is professor of English at Rutgers University, where she teaches American literature and culture. She has published widely on 19th-century American literature, poetry and poetics, intellectual property, and book and media history.


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Writing on Public Books

How Does Copyright Matter?

Copyright as we know it is a surprisingly recent development. It has been with us just a few decades—only as long, roughly, as Hello Kitty and the Star Wars