Book ID: CBB364604163

The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke (2018)

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Willinsky, John (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 400
Language: English

Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property.   Willinsky begins with Saint Jerome in the fifth century, then traces the evolution of reading, writing, and editing practices in monasteries, schools, universities, and among independent scholars through the medieval period and into the Renaissance. He delves into the influx of Islamic learning and the rediscovery of classical texts, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the founding of the Bodleian Library before finally arriving at John Locke, whose influential lobbying helped bring about the first copyright law, the Statute of Anne of 1710. Willinsky’s bravura tour through this history shows that learning gave rise to our idea of intellectual property while remaining distinct from, if not wholly uncompromised by, the commercial economy that this concept inspired, making it clear that today’s push for marketable intellectual property threatens the very nature of the quest for learning on which it rests.

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Authors & Contributors
Mann, Annika
Joffe, Stephen N.
Huzair, Farah
Dietz, Feike
Adi Sapir
Somos, Mark
Concepts
Reading
Books
Commercialization
Intellectual property
Writing
Patents
Time Periods
Early modern
21st century
18th century
20th century, late
17th century
16th century
Places
Netherlands
Italy
Great Britain
Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
South Korea
England
Institutions
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
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