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Book contents
- The Intellectual Property of Nations
- The Intellectual Property of Nations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Legal Institutions and Social Power
- 2 Legal Orders and Social Performance
- 3 Instruments of Legal Power in the Roman Republic
- 4 Semantic Legal Ordering
- 5 Cultural Transformations
- 6 Privileges and Immunities in a Sacramentalizing Order
- 7 Administrative Kingship and Covenantal Bonds
- 8 Intellectual Property in a Nationalizing Order
- 9 Cultural Transformations
- 10 Semantic Legal Ordering
- 11 Instruments of Legal Power in the American Republic
- 12 Legal Orders and Social Performance
- Conclusion The Intellectual Property of Nations
- Index
10 - Semantic Legal Ordering
Idealizing Intellectual Property
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2021
- The Intellectual Property of Nations
- The Intellectual Property of Nations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Legal Institutions and Social Power
- 2 Legal Orders and Social Performance
- 3 Instruments of Legal Power in the Roman Republic
- 4 Semantic Legal Ordering
- 5 Cultural Transformations
- 6 Privileges and Immunities in a Sacramentalizing Order
- 7 Administrative Kingship and Covenantal Bonds
- 8 Intellectual Property in a Nationalizing Order
- 9 Cultural Transformations
- 10 Semantic Legal Ordering
- 11 Instruments of Legal Power in the American Republic
- 12 Legal Orders and Social Performance
- Conclusion The Intellectual Property of Nations
- Index
Summary
In this chapter, I endeavor to weave together a complex series of European legal developments connected with the emergence of intellectual property. I begin by tracing the emergence of intellectual property in France, focusing on the context for this development in the revolutionary processes through which a new French nation was formed, and on the ambivalent implications of national codification for intellectual property in France. I then go back to the Reformation, pointing out the significance of Calvinist and Lutheran legal dcotrines for jurisprudential traditions carrying new conceptions of sovereignty and natural rights. Shifting to the legacies of these traditions for legal and administrative theories that developed in German-speaking lands, we see early foundations for a new jurisprudential narrative that becomes vital to the substantive rationale of intellectual property in our own time: progressivism. The upshot of these complex developments is a paradoxical linkage between bureaucratic impersonalism in the formal application of legal doctrines and an idealizing personalism in the agentive capacities of individual human beings: the idolizing of "genius."
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- The Intellectual Property of NationsSociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution, pp. 303 - 340Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021