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Author Sherman, Brad.

Title The making of modern intellectual property law : the British experience, 1760-1911 / Brad Sherman and Lionel Bently.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 242 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in intellectual property rights
Cambridge studies in intellectual property rights.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (221-236) and index.
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Table of statutes and bills; Table of cases; Introduction; 1 Property in mental labour; 2 The mentality of intangible property; 3 Designing the law; 4 Managing the legal boundaries; Part 3 Towards an intellectual property law; 5 Crystallisation of the categories; 6 Completing the framework; 7 Explanations for the shape of intellectual property law; 8 Changes in the framework; 9 From creation to object; 10 Closure and its consequences; 11 Remembering and forgetting; Bibliography; Index.
Summary This book is the first detailed historical account of why intellectual property law with its sub-categories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks took the shape that it did over the course of the nineteenth century. The authors also discuss ways in which the law grants property status to intangibles.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Intellectual property -- Great Britain -- History.
Intellectual property.
Great Britain.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Bently, Lionel, 1964-
Other Form: Print version: Sherman, Brad. Making of modern intellectual property law. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521563631 (DLC) 00551545 (OCoLC)42084502
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