TY  - BOOK
AU  - May,Christopher
AU  - Sell,Susan K.
TI  - Intellectual Property Rights: A Critical History 
T2  - iPolitics: Global Challenges in the Information Age
SN  - 9781626370029
U1  - 346.04 8 09 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - History
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Propriété intellectuelle
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Histoire
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Why You Need to Know About Intellectual Property --; 2 Ideas and Technology --; 3 The Emergence of Intellectual Property Rights --; 4 Commerce vs. Romantic Notions of Authorship and Invention --; 5 The Nineteenth Century: Technological Development and International Law --; 6 The Twentieth Century: Intellectual Property Rights Consolidated --; 7 The Twenty-First Century: TRIPs and Beyond --; 8 Forgetting History Is Not an Option --; List of Acronyms --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - With intellectual property widely acknowledged today as a key component of economic development, those accused of stealing knowledge and information are also charged with undermining industrial innovation, artistic creativity, and the availability of information itself. How valid are these claims? Has the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement ushered in a new, better era? Christopher May and Susan Sell trace the history of social conflict and political machinations surrounding the making of property out of knowledge. Ranging from ancient commerce in Greek poems to present-day controversies about online piracy and the availability of AIDS drugs in the poorest countries, May and Sell present intellectual property law as a continuing process in which particular conceptions of rights and duties are institutionalized; each settlement prompts new disputes, policy shifts, and new disputes again. They also examine the post-TRIPs era in the context of this process. Their account of two thousand years of technological advances, legal innovation, and philosophical arguments about the character of knowledge production suggests that the future of intellectual property law will be as contested as its past
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626370029
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626370029
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626370029/original
ER  -