The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law

ISBN-13: 9780521563635 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 264 str.

Brad Sherman; Martti Koskenniemi; Lionel Bently

Opis

This book is the first detailed historical account of intellectual property law. In part, it examines why intellectual property law with its subcategories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks took the shape that it did over the course of the nineteenth century. In addition the authors deal with ways in which the law grants property status to intangibles and describe how the law came to create techniques that enabled it to recognize protectable intangibles, and the inescapable problems that have arisen from their use.

Recenzje

'This is a very readable and thought provoking book which should be of interest to anyone concerned with the philosophical basis of intellectual property law and the reform of that law to accommodate the demands of twenty-first entry technology. The authors certainly make their point that to know where we are going, we need to know where we began.' Media & Arts Law Review

Spis treści

Part I. Towards a Property in Intangibles: 1. Property in mental labour; 2. The mentality of intangible property; Part II. The Emergence of a Modern Intellectual Property Law: 3. Designing the law; 4. Managing the legal boundaries; Part III. Towards an Intellectual Property Law: 5. Crystallization of the categories; 6. Completing the framework; 7. Explanations for the shape of intellectual property law; Part IV. Transformations in the Intellectual Property Law: 8. Changes in the framework; 9. From creation to object; 10. Closure and its consequences; 11. Remembering and forgetting; Bibliography.