In this Book
- Expanding Intellectual Property: Copyrights and Patents in 20th Century Europe and beyond
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Central European University Press
summary
The book deals with the expansion and institutionalization of intellectual property norms in the twentieth century, with a European focus. Its thirteen chapters revolve around the transfer, adaptation and the ambivalence of legal transplants in the interface between national and international projects, trends and contexts.
The first part discusses the institutionalization of copyright and patent law in the frame- work of the bigger political and economic projects of the twentieth century. The second and third parts of the collection review relevant processes in the communist regimes and the post-communist societies, respectively. The essays point at processes of enculturation, trans-nationalization and universalization of norms, as well as practices of incorporation and resistance. The contributors lay a particular emphasis on the role and activity of social actors in the establishment and validation of intellectual property norms and regimes, from the function of experts and creation of expert cultures to the compelling power of popular street protests.
Table of Contents
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- Title page, Copyright page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgements
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- List of Contributors
- pp. 303-308
- Back cover
- p. 317
Additional Information
ISBN
9789633861868
Related ISBN(s)
9789633861851
MARC Record
OCLC
975999282
Pages
324
Launched on MUSE
2017-08-09
Language
English
Open Access
No