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Taxes And The 2008 Us Election, Stephen Utz
Taxes And The 2008 Us Election, Stephen Utz
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The Making Of The Post-War Paradigm In American Intellectual Property Law, Steven Wilf
The Making Of The Post-War Paradigm In American Intellectual Property Law, Steven Wilf
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During the New Deal period, intellectual property underwent a transformation. Copyright was recast from literary property to industrial property; trademark shifted from a common law tort of palming off to a regulatory regime for a mass consumer economy, and patent law was rethought to accommodate corporate invention. This essay begins by examining the advantages of looking at intellectual property as deeply situated in New Deal debates over political economy, and calls for a new history of intellectual property very different from conventional narratives moored in the introduction of new technologies. More broadly, it suggests that examining foundational past policy debates, …