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Owning Ideas - The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909 (Hardcover)
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Owning Ideas - The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
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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.
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