@article{27987,
      author = {Siegrist, Hannes., and Siegrist, Hannes, and Dimou,  Augusta,},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/27987},
      title = {Expanding intellectual property : copyrights and patents  in twentieth-century Europe and beyond /},
      abstract = {The book deals with the expansion and institutionalization  of intellectual property norms in the twentieth century,  with a European focus. / Its thirteen / chapters revolve  around the transfer, adaptation and the ambivalence of  legal transplants in the interface between national and  international projects, trends and contexts. After  discussing the institutionalization of copyright and patent  law in the framework of the bigger political and economic  projects of the twentieth century in the first part, the  second and third parts of the collection review relevant  processes in the communist regimes and the post-communist  societies respectively. The essays point at processes of  enculturation, trans-nationalization and universalization  of norms, as well as practices of incorporation and  resistance. The contributors lay a particular emphasis on  the role and activity of social actors in the establishment  and validation of intellectual property norms and regimes,  from the function of experts and creation of expert  cultures to the compelling power of popular street  protests.},
      recid = {27987},
      pages = {1 online resource (315 pages).},
}