Intellectual Property and Narratives of Discovery/Invention: The League of Nations' Draft Convention on “Scientific Property” and Its Fate (2008)
In the 1920s the League of Nations' Committee on Intellectual Cooperation attempted to gain international agreement to a scheme extending intellectual property to scientific discoveries. The campaign to establish scientific property was essentially a scheme to tax industry in order to support the dispossessed in science --- scientific communities that had been devastated by the First World War and the economic problems of the 1920s. This paper tells the story of that attempt, seeking to identify the intellectual and political forces behind it and those opposing it, concentrating upon the reaction to the proposed convention on scientific property in the U.S. and Britain.
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