Intellectual property: the global spread of a legal concept

Titel:	Intellectual property: the global spread of a legal concept / Alexander Peukert
Verfasser:	Peukert, Alexander
Veröffentlicht:	Frankfurt am Main : Goethe-Univ., Fachbereich Rechtswiss., 2013
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk:	Arbeitspapier / Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main ; 2013,2
Schlagworte:	Geistiges Eigentum

Bemerkung:	Forthcoming in: Klaus Günther ... (eds.), Legal cultures, legal transfer, and legal pluralism
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.

Bemerkung:

Forthcoming in: Klaus Günther ... (eds.), Legal cultures, legal transfer, and legal pluralism

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.

Intellectual property: the global spread of a legal concept

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