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The making of modern intellectual property law: the British experience, 1760–1911

By Lionel Bently , Brad Sherman

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521563631, 9780521563635, 0521057132, 9780521057134, 0511008856, 9780511008856, 051115206X, 9780511152061
Google Books ID
5Whg1aNLr30C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1198282 bytes)
Series
Cambridge studies in intellectual property rights #1
Pages
264\263
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.• First detailed historical account of "IP" (the post-1911 book should be written in time)• Two young scholars' widely respected in their joint presentation of these ideas /now written up• Offers a number of important lessons for current debates in the area

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