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

by John Willinsky

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:022648792X

ISBN13:9780226487922

Release Date:January 2018

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"

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Education Education & Reference History

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