Making and unmaking intellectual property : creative production in legal and cultural perspective / edited by Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee.

1. Patent specification and political representation: how patents became rights; 2. Authoring an invention: patent production in the nineteenh-century United States; 3. The 'person skilled in the art' is really quite conventional: U.S. patent drawings and the persona of the inventor, 1870-2005; 4. Cultural agencies: the legal construction of community subjects and their properties; 5. Social invention; 6. From 'folklore' to 'knowledge' in global governance: on the metamorphoses of the unauthored; 7. Inventing copyleft; 8. Designing cooperative systems for knowledge production: an initial synthesis from experimental economics; 9. Beyond representation: the figure of the pirate; 10. Publishers, privateers, pirates: eighteenth-century german book piracy revisited; 11. The property police; 12. Characterizing copyright in the classroom: the cultural work of antipiracy campaigns; 13. An economic view of legal restrictions on musical borrowing and appropriation; 14. New blood, new fruits: protections for breeders and originators, 1789-1930; 15. Kinds, clones, and manufactures; 16. No patent, no generic: pharmaceutical access and the politics of the copy; 17. Inventing race as a genetic commodity in biotechnology patents; 18. The strange odyssey of software interfaces as intellectual property; 19. Invention, origin, and dedication: republishing women's prints in early modern Italy; 20. Technological platforms and the layers of patent data; 21. Intellectual property norms in stand-up comedy; 22. Patenting life: how the oncomouse patent changed the lives of mice and men; 23. Is there such a thing as postmodern copyright?:.