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Intellectual property law and history / edited by Steven Wilf, University of Connecticut, USA.
2012
F 141 WIL.I
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Title
Intellectual property law and history / edited by Steven Wilf, University of Connecticut, USA.
Description
xxvii, 489 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN
9780754628811
9781351562669 electronic book
9781315092621
9781351562645
9781351562669 electronic book
9781315092621
9781351562645
Alternate Call Number
F 141 WIL.I
Summary
"Intellectual property has become a dominant feature of our knowledge based economy in recent years, but how has property rights in intangible items developed? This book brings together for the first time exemplary scholarship with diverse approaches to the history of United States intellectual property protection, including trade secrets, trademark, copyright, and patent law. These articles, written by leading experts in the field and often challenging conventional narratives, underscore the importance of historical perspectives for understanding how an extensive, evolving framework for the regulation of knowledge emerged in the modern period. By tracing intellectual property from an historical perspective - not merely providing justifications in philosophy or economics in the abstract - this book draws upon the past to address contemporary debates over such varied topics as: access to knowledge; policing copyright infringement; whether employees should own the products of their minds; the role of national borders in an age of digital information; and the very future of intellectual property as stakeholders and consumers contest the extent of its legal protection."--Provided by publisher.
Note
Facsimile reproductions of articles that were originally published in various journals and law reviews.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Technology piracy and the report on manufactures; 2. A tale of two copyright: literary property in revolutionary France and America; 3. Toward a theory of copyright: the metamorphoses of "authorship"; 4. Removing the "fuel of interest" from the "fire of genius" : law and the employee-inventor, 1830-1930; 5. 'Copyrighting American history : international copyright and the periodization of the nineteenth century', American literature; 6. 'The transformation of antebellum patent law', technology and culture; 7. 'Property rights and patent litigation in early nineteenth-century America; 8. 'Reform(aliz)ing copyright'; 9. 'The making of the post-war paradigm in American intellectual property law'; 10. 'One hundred years of solicitude : intellectual property law, 1900-2000'.
Series
International Library Of Essays In Law And Society.
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2012]
Language
English
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Scope and Content
"Intellectual property has become a dominant feature of our knowledge based economy in recent years, but how has property rights in intangible items developed? This book brings together for the first time exemplary scholarship with diverse approaches to the history of United States intellectual property protection, including trade secrets, trademark, copyright, and patent law. These articles, written by leading experts in the field and often challenging conventional narratives, underscore the importance of historical perspectives for understanding how an extensive, evolving framework for the regulation of knowledge emerged in the modern period. By tracing intellectual property from an historical perspective - not merely providing justifications in philosophy or economics in the abstract - this book draws upon the past to address contemporary debates over such varied topics as: access to knowledge; policing copyright infringement; whether employees should own the products of their minds; the role of national borders in an age of digital information; and the very future of intellectual property as stakeholders and consumers contest the extent of its legal protection."--Provided by publisher.