Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power

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