"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 alloca...

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1. Verfasser:	Bracha, Oren (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1790-1909 Geschichte Intellectual property > United States > History Copyright > United States > History Urheberrecht USA
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Zusammenfassung:	"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"...
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	viii, 324 Seiten
ISBN:	9780521877664