518 Pages
by
Routledge
518 Pages
by
Routledge
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Intellectual property has become a dominant feature of our knowledge based economy in recent years, but how has property rights in intangible items developed? This book brings together for the first time exemplary scholarship with diverse approaches to the history of United States intellectual property protection, including trade secrets, trademark, copyright, and patent law. These articles,... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Alexander Hamilton's alternative: technology piracy and the report on manufactures, Doron Ben-Atar; A tale of two copyrights: literary property in Revolutionary France and America, Jane C. Ginsburg; Toward a theory of copyright: the metamorphoses of 'authorship', Peter Jaszi; Removing the 'fuel of interest' from the 'fire of genius': law and the employee inventor 1830-1930, Catherine L. Fisk; Copyrighting American history: international copyright and the periodization of the 19th century, Claudia Stokes; The transformation of antebellum patent law, Steven Lubar; Property rights and patent litigation in early 19th-century America, B. Zorina Khan; Reform(aliz)ing copyright, Christopher Sprigman; The making of the post-war paradigm in American intellectual property law, Steven Wilf; One hundred years of solicitude: intellectual property law 1900-2000, Robert P. Merges; Name index.
Biography
Wilf, Steven
