One of the common themes in recent public debate has been the law’s inabilityto accommodate the new ways of creating, distributing and replicating intellectual products. In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understandits past. This is its first detailed historical account. In this book the authors explore two related themes. First, they explain why intellectual propertylaw came to take its now familiar shape with sub-categories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks. Secondly, the authors set out to explain how itis that the law grants property status to intangibles. In doing so they explore the rise and fall of creativity as an organising concept in intellectual property law, the mimetic nature of intellectual property law and the important role that the registration process plays in shaping intangible property. INDICE: Part I. Towards a Property in Intangibles: 1. Property in mental labour; 2. The mentality of intangible property; Part II. The Emergence of a Modern Intellectual Property Law: 3. Designing the law; 4. Managing the legal boundaries; Part III. Towards an Intellectual Property Law: 5. Crystallization of the categories; 6. Completing the framework; 7. Explanations for the shape of intellectual property law; Part IV. Transformations in the Intellectual Property Law: 8. Changes in the framework; 9. From creation to object; 10. Closureand its consequences; 11. Remembering and forgetting; Bibliography.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-05713-4
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 27/03/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés