Just ran across this on the cni-copyright listserv - an article from Daedalus, which at first glance looks extremely interesting.

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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