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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824792403321

Autore

Sherman Brad

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge [England] ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-511-05356-8

0-511-15206-X

0-511-00885-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 242 pages)

Collana

Cambridge studies in intellectual property rights

Altri autori (Persone)

BentlyLionel <1964->

Disciplina

346.4104/8/09

Soggetti

Intellectual property - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (221-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.