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The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law

Edited by Lionel Bently · Brad Sherman
Cambridge University Press May 2008

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780521057134
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
May 2008
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

One of the common themes in recent public debate has been the law’s inability to accommodate the new ways of creating, distributing and replicating intellectual products. In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understand its past.

This is its first detailed historical account. In this book the authors explore two related themes. First, they explain why intellectual property law came to take its now familiar shape with sub-categories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks. Secondly, the authors set out to explain how it is that the law grants property status to intangibles. In doing so they explore the rise and fall of creativity as an organising concept in intellectual property law, the mimetic nature of intellectual property law and the important role that the registration process plays in shaping intangible property.

  • First detailed historical account of ‘IP’ (the post-1911 book should be written in time)
  • Two young scholars’ widely respected in their joint presentation of these ideas /now written up
  • Offers a number of important lessons for current debates in the area

Table of Contents

Contents:
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:
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.
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