Amalyah Keshet
Director of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il
> I have read so far a lot about how the copyright system in England and
> USA came to be, but how did the French and other europeans arrive to the
> concept of copyright as a natural right?
It did not happen overnight. It is a slow development over
several centuries. You may want to start with the article
"The rise of intellectual property, 700 B.C.-A.D. 2000: an
idea in the balance" by Carla Hesse. It can be found at:
http://www.amacad.org/publications/spring2002/hesse.pdf
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