Intellectual property: the global spread of a legal concept
| Titel: | Intellectual property: the global spread of a legal concept [Elektronische Ressource] / Alexander Peukert |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Frankfurt am Main : Goethe-Univ., Fachbereich Rechtswiss., 2013 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Arbeitspapier / Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main ; 2013,2 |
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| Bemerkung: | Forthcoming in: Klaus Günther ... (eds.), Legal cultures, legal transfer, and legal pluralism |
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| Zusammenfassung: |
Although intellectual property law is a distinctively Western, modern, and relatively young body of law, it has spread all over the world, now encompassing all but a very few outsiders such as Afghanistan, Somalia, and Vanuatu. This article presents three legal transfers that contributed to this development: first, from real property in land and movables to intellectual property in the late 18th century in Western Europe; second, from Western Europe, in particular from the United Kingdom and France to the rest of the world during the colonial era in the 19th and early 20th century; third, from the protection of new knowledge to the protection of traditional knowledge, held by indigenous communities in developing countries, on 5 August 1963. This story illuminates how legal transfers in a broad sense – including, but not limited to legal transplants - drive the evolution of law. |
