Moments in law: Contestation and settlement in the history of intellectual property

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 467-500

  Sell, Susan ^a,b   May, Christopher ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Ideas of ownership; Intellectual property rights; Legal institutions; Technology; TRIPs agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035637053     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290110055849     Document Type: Article

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