The making of modern intellectual property law : the British experience, 1760-1911
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The making of modern intellectual property law : the British experience, 1760-1911
（Cambridge studies in intellectual property rights）
Cambridge University Press, 1999
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-236) and index
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Description
One of the common themes in recent public debate has been the law's inability to accommodate the new ways of creating, distributing and replicating intellectual products. In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understand its past. This is its first detailed historical account. In this book the authors explore two related themes. First, they explain why intellectual property law came to take its now familiar shape with sub-categories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks. Secondly, the authors set out to explain how it is that the law grants property status to intangibles. In doing so they explore the rise and fall of creativity as an organising concept in intellectual property law, the mimetic nature of intellectual property law and the important role that the registration process plays in shaping intangible property.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Towards a Property in Intangibles: 1. Property in mental labour
- 2. The mentality of intangible property
- Part II. The Emergence of a Modern Intellectual Property Law: 3. Designing the law
- 4. Managing the legal boundaries
- Part III. Towards an Intellectual Property Law: 5. Crystallization of the categories
- 6. Completing the framework
- 7. Explanations for the shape of intellectual property law
- Part IV. Transformations in the Intellectual Property Law: 8. Changes in the framework
- 9. From creation to object
- 10. Closure and its consequences
- 11. Remembering and forgetting
- Bibliography.
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