Intellectual property rights : a critical history /
With intellectual property widely acknowledged today as a key component of economic development, those accused of stealing knowledge and information are also charged with undermining industrial innovation, artistic creativity, and the availability of information itself. How valid are these claims? H...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colorado :
Lynne Rienner Publishers,
2006.
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Colección: | Ipolitics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Title
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1-Why You Need to Know About Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property: Global Governance and History
- What Are Intellectual Property Rights?
- Setting the Stage
- 2-Ideas and Technology
- Justifying Intellectual Property
- Triangulating the History of Intellectual Property
- Contestation and Change in the History of Intellectual Property
- Notes
- 3-The Emergence of Intellectual Property Rights
- Early Antecedents of Intellectual Property
- The Middle Ages, Guild Knowledge, and the Transition to Intellectual PropertyThe Venetian Moment: Intellectual Property Is Born
- Patents, Printing, and the Venetian Economy
- Elsewhere
- Notes
- 4-Commerce vs. Romantic Notions of Authorship and Invention
- From Venice to London: Some Continental Developments
- British Innovations in Patents
- British Innovations in Copyrights
- The Early Modern Period of Intellectual Property
- Notes
- 5-The Nineteenth Century: Technological Development and International Law
- Intellectual Property as Public Policy
- The International Diversity of LawFrom the Patent Controversy to Paris and Bern
- Thomas Edison: Patents as a Business Strategy
- Copyright and Works for Hire
- The Ascendance of the German Chemical Industry
- Notes
- 6-The Twentieth Century: Intellectual Property Rights Consolidated
- Trust-busting and Cartels
- Skepticism About Intellectual Property Rights After 1945
- Property Rights Resurgent
- Twentieth-Century Copyright
- Toward a Multilateral Settlement
- Notes
- 7-The Twenty-First Century: TRIPs and Beyond
- TRIPs
- After TRIPs
- Notes8-Forgetting History Is Not an Option
- The Importance of History: The Global Politics of Intellectual Property Today
- The Resurgence of the World Intellectual Property Organization
- Political Implications
- Note
- Acronyms
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Book