Countries like India and Brazil saw early on how excessive monopoly protection due to intellectual property rights would be an impediment to development, says professor Peter Drahos LYNN FRIES: ...

Introduced in 1959, the Xerox 914 could make 100,000 copies per month. The Smithsonian received this machine in 1985. National Museum of American History The story of the invention of the photocopy ...

The Berkman Center is hosting an online reading group on the History of Intellectual Property in the U.S. The group will loosely mirror a reading group led by Berkman Fellow Professor Lewis Hyde ...

As part of a series of articles on intellectual property, Adrian Johns writes about the early 20th-century battle in England between sheet-music pirates and music publishers -- a story that often ...

Goryeo celadon / Hee-Kyoung Spiritas Cho -- Murano glass vase / Stefania Fusco -- Mona Lisa / Andrea Wallace -- Tempesta map of Rome / Jane C. Ginsburg -- Hogarth engraving / Michael Punt -- ...

As trade talks continue between the United States and China, U.S. officials complain that China has long failed to protect U.S. intellectual property rights, a charge China rejects. The United States ...

In this tightly written book, Banner, a professor of law at UCLA, tackles an admittedly expansive topic, illustrating that our ideas about what property is, how it is regulated, and what it is meant ...

J.K. Rowling will be making money off of the Harry Potter books until the 23rd-century thanks to the twisted history of intellectual property law in the United States. Unfamiliar with how and why ...

Professionals in creative industries should have some form of protection against others exploiting what they have created, even if it's not a tangible, physical object. In technical terms, this is ...

DRAHOS: I think one the interesting things about the whole history of intellectual property rights and in particularly the role that the United States has played is the assumption that the US will ...