Abstract This essay studies in detail—from a legal and aesthetic perspective—an eighteenth-century game map that became the object of a copyright dispute. Thomas Jefferys’s Royal Geographical Pastime or the Complete Tour of Europe was only the second geographical game to be produced in Britain. The game was, however, more than a simple pastime for an educated public. The map fed notions of hegemony and carried political messages about the relationships between Britain and her continental neighbours, while at the same time informing attitudes towards education and the role of Enlightenment ideas. The present study is concerned with the historical associations between maps and copyright law against this background. It questions the impact of making incremental changes to, and copying, an existing map on the regular operations of mapmakers, which conferred legitimacy on the maps while also posing legal challenges. These challenges were in turn complicated by the status of the map as an object with diverse functions and meanings.

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游戏地图：十八世纪英国的版权对象和权威形式

摘要 本文从法律和美学的角度详细研究了一张成为版权纠纷对象的 18 世纪游戏地图。托马斯杰弗里斯的皇家地理消遣或欧洲完整之旅只是第二个在英国制作的地理游戏。然而，对于受过教育的公众来说，这款游戏不仅仅是一种简单的消遣。该地图提供了霸权的概念，并传达了有关英国与其大陆邻国之间关系的政治信息，同时也传达了人们对教育的态度和启蒙思想的作用。本研究关注的是在此背景下地图与版权法之间的历史关联。它质疑对现有地图进行增量更改和复制对地图制作者常规操作的影响，这赋予了地图合法性，同时也带来了法律挑战。这些挑战反过来又因地图作为具有不同功能和意义的物体的地位而变得复杂。