Intellectual Property A Reference Handbook torrent

The human desire to claim property rights in an idea is innate,
as any child who has ever told another �Stop copying me!�
knows. Legal recognition of property in ideas, however�
intellectual property�is a comparatively recent phenomenon,
appearing centuries of millennia after the recognition of property
rights in objects and land.
Revolutions in technology bring about revolutions in law.
The human race has experienced four great revolutions in information
technology. The first, lost in prehistory and probably predating
our emergence as a species, was language. The ability to
attach specific sound-symbols to specific thoughts is what makes
human civilization�including legal systems�possible. The second
revolution, the invention of writing, made more complex
legal systems possible. When written documents could only be
copied by hand, however, the incentive for making unauthorized
copies of entire works was limited�although disputes did arise,
including the possibly mythical dispute between St. Columba
and St. Finnian (discussed in Chapter 2) that may have led to
three thousand deaths.