Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909

by Oren Bracha

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521877660
• ISBN13: 9780521877664
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"