1st Edition

Expanding Intellectual Property Copyrights and Patents in 20th Century Europe and beyond

By Augusta Dimou, Hannes Siegrist Copyright 2017
324 Pages
by Central European University Press

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. The first part discusses the institutionalization of copyright and patent... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part I. The Institutionalization of Intellectual Property Rights between National and International Contexts, Part II Socialism: Copyright between System and Defiance, Part III Postsocialism: Renegotiating Copyright Norms in Europe, List of Contributors, Index

Biography

Augusta Dimou is Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. She is a historian specializing in contemporary comparative European History with a regional focus on Southeast and East-Central Europe. She is currently completing her habilitation on the development of intellectual property rights and cultural politics in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

Hannes Siegriest is Professor Emeritus for the Social and Cultural History of Contemporary Europe at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Leipzig. He is member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and stands on the advisory board of the Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe of the University of Leipzig.