Working knowledge : employee innovation and the rise of corporate intellectual property, 1800-1930 /
In most sectors of today's economy, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that businesses retain legal ownership of employee-generated intellectual property. That was not the case in the 19th century, however, when workplace knowledge and technical skill were considered the property of...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Stealing in the dark the improvements of others
- The genius which conceived and the toil which compiled the book
- If these mill owners desire to cripple a man's enterprise and his energy and intelligence, they must contract to that effect
- An ingenious man enabled by contract
- They claim to own him, body, and soul
- Corporate management of science and scientific management of corporations
- The corporation's money paid for the painting ; its artist colored it; its president designed it
- Conclusion : attribution, authenticity, and the corporate production of technology and culture.


