The regulations of the access to knowledge in the preindustrial period. Introduction to a sociological history of the intellectual property
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re32.285Keywords:
knowledge, intellectual property, patentes, preindustrial societiesAbstract
The aim of this paper is to discuss the characteristics of the institutions that, many years later, were named “intellectual property”. The objective is to show the direct opposition between those institutions –and the beliefs that support them– and the actual intellectual property system, with its legislations and legitimizations. First, we put forward an “ideal type” about the shared beliefs in the preindustrial Europe about knowledge, made of three ideas: a) The indivisibility of knowledge, b) The absence of the notion of individual creator, c) The rejection of the concept of novelty. Second, and this is the main purpose of this paper, we try to show the intimate link between that ideal type and the legal institutions that regulated de flows of knowledge in the modern preindustrial era: monopolies, privilege, patents.
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