Intellectual property rights
Subtitle: a critical history
By: Christopher May, Susan K. Sell.
Contributors: Sell, Susan K.
Series: Ipolitics
Publisher: Lynne Rienners Publishers; Lynne Rienner Pub
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Intellectual property -- History; Intellectual property -- Political aspects; Intellectual property -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why you need to know about intellectual property; title: Ideas and technology; title: The emergence of intellectual property rights; title: Commerce vs. romantic notions of authorship and invention; title: The nineteenth century : technological development and international law; title: The twentieth century : intellectual property rights consolidated; title: The twenty-first century : TRIPS and beyond; title: Forgetting history is not an option.