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Subtitle: employee innovation and the rise of corporate intellectual property, 1800-1930
By: Catherine L. Fisk.
Series: Studies in legal history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807833025
Subjects: Inventions, Employees -- United States -- History; Intellectual property -- United States; Patents and government-developed inventions -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stealing in the dark the improvements of others; title: The genius which conceived and the toil which compiled the book; title: If these mill owners desire to cripple a man's enterprise and his energy and intelligence, they must contract to that effect; title: An ingenious man enabled by contract; title: They claim to own him, body, and soul; title: Corporate management of science and scientific management of corporations; title: The corporation's money paid for the painting ; its artist colored it; its president designed it; title: Conclusion : attribution, authenticity, and the corporate production of technology and culture.