<i>'Behind IP law is IP lore: all the history, ideas, personalities, and traditions (real and imagined) that give intellectual property its real-world meaning and content. </i>Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property<i> brings these settings to the forefront in a mind-expanding collection. The book spans continents and centuries, unfolding like a vivid anthology of short stories about literature, innovation, and commerce from medieval Ireland to Industrial-Age America to modern-day India and South Africa. Readers will not see intellectual property the same way again.'</i><br /> --Christopher Beauchamp, Brooklyn Law School, US<p><i>'This wide-ranging set of essays serves as a provocation to reconsider many truisms about the forms, requirements, rationales, and logics of intellectual property. Moving from Lockean ownership and lawful piracy to theories of authorship and patent reform, the contributors use a variety of methodological perspectives to investigate and reframe some of IP law's best-known just-so stories.'</i><br /> --Simon Stern, University of Toronto, Canada</p>
Disentangling lore from traditions, expert contributors incorporate contextual understandings that are rooted in history, sociology, political science, and literary studies into their analyses. They explore the context of particular cases to reveal the ramifications of specific doctrines for the evolution of intellectual property practices. Chapters illuminate the various facets of intellectual property lore: contract, authorship, common law, and wartime property. Utilising novel methods and previously unpublished materials on copyright, patent, and trademark law, the book examines legal history and developments from multiple perspectives.
This rich and accessible book will prove to be a valuable resource for students, academics of intellectual property law, and legal historians. Its use of new materials and exploration of key cases will also be beneficial for intellectual property legal practitioners.