Owning Ideas

The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909

AvOren Bracha

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Owning Ideas is a comprehensive account of the emergence of the concept of intellectual property in the United States during the long nineteenth century. In the modern information era, intellectual property has become a central economic and cultural phenomenon, and an important lever for allocating wealth and power. This book uncovers the intellectual origins of this modern concept of private property in ideas through a close study of its emergence within the two most important areas of this field: patent and copyright. By placing the development of legal concepts within their social context, this study reconstructs the radical transformation of the idea. Our modern notion of owning ideas, it argues, came into being when the ideals of eighteenth-century possessive individualism at the heart of early patent and copyright were subjected to the forces and ideology of late-nineteenth-century corporate liberalism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-01
Mått:158 x 239 x 25 mm
Vikt:610 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Antal sidor:331
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521877664

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Oren Bracha is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law, Austin. He is one of the leading scholars of the history of Anglo-American intellectual property and has published extensively in the fields of intellectual property law and legal history.

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'This book is a superb study of the transformation of American copyright and patent doctrine in the nineteenth century. Deeply researched, finely nuanced and lucidly presented. Owning Ideas will be read by literary scholars, cultural historians, Americanists generally and scholars in communications and media departments as well as by legal scholars. It will quickly become a classic.' Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The origins of the American intellectual property regime; 2. The rise and fall of authorship based copyright; 3. Objects of property: owning intellectual works; 4. Inventors' rights; 5. Owning inventions; Conclusion; Index.