“A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects is a collection of essays about the history of the branches of law that we today term intellectual property, each chapter taking a single object as its starting point. Spanning a diverse range of objects, from the twelfth century to today – from the Mona Lisa to the Kodak Camera, the Lego Brick to the Internet – A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects is based on the idea behind the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects presented by Neil MacGregor of the British Museum (published by Penguin, 2012) which has also been adapted to popular subjects such as A History of Cricket in 100 Objects (Serpent’s Tail, 2013). Approaching intellectual property through objects, however, is more complex …” (more)
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‘Op den Kamp, C and Hunter, D (eds), A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 429 pp, hb £17.99′, Modern Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12601. First published: 23 November 2020.
First posted 2020-11-25 14:40:52
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