Working knowledge : employee innovation and the rise of corporate intellectual property, 1800-1930 /

In most sectors of today's economy, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that businesses retain legal ownership of employee-generated intellectual property. That was not the case in the 19th century, however, when workplace knowledge and technical skill were considered the property of...

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Author / Creator: Fisk, Catherine L., 1961- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:Studies in legal history.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
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505 0 |a Stealing in the dark the improvements of others -- The genius which conceived and the toil which compiled the book -- If these mill owners desire to cripple a man's enterprise and his energy and intelligence, they must contract to that effect -- An ingenious man enabled by contract -- They claim to own him, body, and soul -- Corporate management of science and scientific management of corporations -- The corporation's money paid for the painting ; its artist colored it; its president designed it -- Conclusion : attribution, authenticity, and the corporate production of technology and culture. 
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