IP before IP

Exercising and Protecting Creations and Inventions before the Modern IP Regime
This illuminating book examines how people managed their creative and inventive works before the modern intellectual property (IP) system. Neil J. Wilkof explores how individuals treated intellectual creations in their respective times and across differing political, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
This illuminating book examines how people managed their creative and inventive works before the modern intellectual property (IP) system. Neil J. Wilkof explores how individuals treated intellectual creations in their respective times and across differing political, cultural, and religious backgrounds.

Written as an engaging narrative, and presenting a wide range of historical and geographical accounts, the book traces IP from the Biblical era to the Industrial Revolution and from Edinburgh to Baghdad. Each chapter explores a self-contained histori