Intellectual property law and history / edited by Steven Wilf. - xxvii, 489 pages ; 25 cm. - The international library of essays in law and society . - International library of essays in law and society. .

Facsimile reproductions of articles that were originally published in various journals and law reviews.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alexander Hamilton's alternative : technology piracy and the report on manufactures / A tale of two copyrights : literary property in revolutionary France and America / Toward a theory of copyright : the metamorphoses of'authorship' / Removing the'fuel of interest' from the'fire of genius' : law and the employee inventor 1830-1930 / Copyrighting American history : international copyright and the periodization of the 19th century / The transformation of antebellum patent law / Property rights and patent litigation in early 19th-century America / Reform(aliz)ing copyright / The making of the post-war paradigm in American intellectual property law / One hundred years of solicitude : intellectual property law 1900-2000 / Doron Ben-Atar -- Jane C. Ginsburg -- Peter Jaszi -- Catherine L. Fisk -- Claudia Stokes -- Steven Lubar -- B. Zorina Khan -- Christopher Sprigman -- Steven Wilf -- Robert P. Merges.

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Intellectual property.
Intellectual property--History.
Copyright--History.
Patent laws and legislation--History.