Trade secrets : intellectual piracy and the origins of American industrial power / Doron S. Ben-Atar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben-Atar, Doron S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business intelligence--United States--History.

Business intelligence.

Trade secrets--United States--History.

Trade secrets.

Technological innovations--United States--History.

Technological innovations.

Piracy (Copyright)--United States--History.

Piracy (Copyright).

Industrial property--United States--History.

Industrial property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xxi, 281 p.) ) ill., 1 port.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the first decades of America's existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was developing policies that set new standards for protecting industrial innovations. This book traces the evolution of America's contradictory approach to intellectual property rights from the colonial period to the age of Jackson. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Britain shared technological innovations selectively with its American colonies. It became less willing to do so once America's fledgling industries grew more competitive. After the Revolution, the leaders of the republic supported the piracy of European technology in order to promote the economic strength and political independence of the new nation. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States became a leader among industrializing nations and a major exporter of technology. It erased from national memory its years of piracy and became the world's foremost advocate of international laws regulating intellectual property.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Knowledge as Property in the International State System

Chapter 2. The Battle over Technology within the Empire

Chapter 3. Benjamin Franklin and America's Technology Deficit

Chapter 4. After the Revolution: ''The American Seduction of Machines and Artisans''

Chapter 5. Official Orchestration of Technology Smuggling

Chapter 6. Constructing the American Understanding of Intellectual Property

Chapter 7. The Path to Crystal Palace

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611740788

9781281740786

1281740780

9780300127218

0300127219

OCLC:

1013954610