TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bracha,Oren
TI  - Owning ideas: the intellectual origins of American intellectual property, 1790-1909 
T2  - Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
SN  - 9780521877664 (hardback)
U1  - 341.758 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - UK
PB  - Cambridge
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - United States
KW  - Copyright
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The origins of the American intellectual property regime; 2. The rise and fall of authorship-based copyright; 3. Objects of property: owning intellectual works; 4. Inventors' rights; 5. Owning inventions; Conclusion; Index
N2  - "Owning Ideas is a comprehensive account of the emergence of the concept of intellectual property in the United States during the long nineteenth century. In the modern information era, intellectual property has become a central economic and cultural phenomenon and an important lever for allocating wealth and power. This book uncovers the intellectual origins of this modern concept of private property in ideas through a close study of its emergence within the two most important areas of this field: patent and copyright. By placing the development of legal concepts within their social context, this study reconstructs the radical transformation of the idea. Our modern notion of owning ideas, it argues, came into being when the ideals of eighteenth-century possessive individualism at the heart of early patent and copyright were subjected to the forces and ideology of late-nineteenth-century corporate liberalism"--
ER  -