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This illuminating book examines how people managed their creative and inventive works before the modern intellectual property (IP) system. Neil J. Wilkof explores how individuals treated intellectual creations in their respective times and across differing political, cultural, and religious backgrounds.Written as an engaging narrative, and presenting a wide range of historical and geographical accounts, the book traces IP from the Biblical era to the Industrial Revolution and from Edinburgh to Baghdad. Each chapter explores a self-contained historical period, highlighting the diversity of people, locations, periods, and circumstances prior to the modern harmonisation of legal IP. The narrative illuminates the motivations for protecting creation and invention, underscoring notable attitudinal differences between then and now. Rather than seeking to uncover historical antecedents to the modern IP system, the book addresses intellectual historical creations and inventions on their own terms and within their own milieu.IP before IP is an essential resource for scholars and students of intellectual property law, and legal, cultural and literary history. Intellectual property lawyers seeking to broaden their understanding of historical IP will also benefit from its diverse, expansive scope.
Contents1 Introduction to IP before IPPART I NAMES2 Names in the service of 16th-century artistic illusions 3 The improbable reimaginations of ‘Cutty Sark’PART II WRITINGS4 Behind it all is translation: from Babel to Bethlehem toBaghdad to Bialystok to Berne5 Medieval and Renaissance modes of authorial control ofwritings6 The historical mists of piracy, plagiarism, and bowdlerize PART III THINGS7 Technology transfer and Samuel Slater (1761–1835): traitor,betrayer, or man of his time?8 An unexpected Gothic tale: John Ruskin, Eugéne EmmanuelViollet-le-Duc, and conceiving the 19th restoration ofhistorical building
‘This is a fascinating book that takes its reader on a voyage of discovery around several historical vignettes that illustrate the prehistory of various types of intellectual property, addressing a topic that I do not think has ever before been the subject of so extensive a treatment. It shows how these episodes bear on the subject today and widens our horizons in thinking about it. But the book is certainly not just for the intellectual property enthusiast – the stories that it weaves will intrigue any enquiring reader.’