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082	0	0	_a341.758 _bBRA.O
100	1		_aBracha, Oren,
245	1	0	_aOwning ideas : _bthe intellectual origins of American intellectual property, 1790-1909 / _cOren Bracha, University of Texas, Austin.
260			_aUK, _bCambridge, _c2016.
300			_aviii, 324 pages ;
490	0		_aCambridge historical studies in American law and society
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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"--
650		0	_aIntellectual property _zUnited States
650		0	_aCopyright _zUnited States
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