“In 1881, the later-to-be Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote in The Common Law as follows: ‘The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience […] In order to know what it is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become’. These words embody the idea behind Forgotten Intellectual Property Lore (ed Shubha Ghosh, Edward Elgar Publishing). This book recounts lesser-known cases and ignored chapters in the history of prominent IP, all of which have shaped IP law as we know it today. In Chapter 1, ‘Locke’s (own) literary property’, Rebecca Schoff Curtin offers an insightful picture of how Locke’s theoretical notions stood up in the face of his own publication agreements …” (more)
[Anastasiia Kyrylenko and Vicente Zafrilla Díaz-Marta, The IPKat, 1 February]
First posted 2021-02-02 10:24:56
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