Pensum (accessible online):
Carla Hesse (2002), “The Rise of Intellectual Property, 700 B.C.–A.D. 2000: An Idea in the Balance,” Daedalus 131, 2: 26–45 (access via J-STOR).
Michel Foucault (1969), “What is an Author?”, Lecture at Collège de France, translation
Petra Moser (2016), “Patents and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History”, NBER Working Papers Series, Cambridge: National Bureau for Economic Research, 34 pp (access on google scholar – aeaweb.org).
Jonathan M. Barnett (2005), “Shopping for Gucci on Canal Street: Reflections on Status Consumption, Intellectual Property, and the Incentive Thesis”, in: Virginia Law Review, vol. 91, 6, p. 1381-1423 (access via Heinonline).
Emmanuelle Fauchart, Eric von Hippel (2008), “Norms-Based Intellectual Property Systems: The Case of French Chefs.” Organization Science 19, 2: 187–201 (free access via Google scholar).
Michael A. Cusumano, Y. Mylonadis & R. S. Rosenbloom (1992) “Strategic Manoeuvering and Mass-Market Dynamics: The Triumph of VHS over Beta.” Business History Review 66, 1: 51–94 (accessible online).
Klaus Nathaus, “From Dance Bands to Radio and Records: Pop music promotion in West Germany and the decline of the Schlager genre (1945-1964)”, Pop Music History, 6, 3, 287-306.
Eva Hemmungs Wirten (2015), “The Patent and the Paper: a Few Thoughts on Late Modern Science and Intellectual Property”, Culture Unbound, Volume 7, 600–609 (freely accessible via Diva portal)
Thomas Pogge (2009), “The Health Impact Fund: Boosting Pharmaceutical Innovation without Obstructing Free Access”, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 18, 1, 78–86. (free access, Heinonline.org)
Eva Hemmungs Wirten (2010), “Colonial Copyright, Postcolonial Publics: The Berne Convention and the 1967 Stockholm Diplomatic Conference Revisited”, SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society, 7, 3, 532-550 (accessible via Heinonline).
Elinor Ostrom (1990), Governing the Commons. The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (selection of pages). Free access: https://wtf.tw/ref/ostrom_1990.pdf
Printed articles available in compendium at Akademika:
Daniel McLean (2010), “Piracy and authorship in contemporary art and the artistic Commonwealth”, in Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique, edited by L. Bentley, J. Davis & J.C. Ginsburg, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 311–339.
Adrian Johns (2009), Piracy. The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (chapter 15).
Daniel Gray (2012), Unfair to Genius. The strange and litigious career of Ira B. Arnstein, Oxford: Oxford University Press (chapter 1).
Kembrew McLeod and Peter Di Cola (2011), Creative License. The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling, Durham: Duke University Press (chapter 2).
Jason Mazzone (2011), “Copyfraud”, Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law. Stanford: Stanford Law Books, 1–25.
Bob Reinalda (2009), “Standardization and intellectual property regulated internationally”, Routledge History of International Organizations. From 1815 to the Present day, Abingdon: Routledge, 96–106.
Daniel Laqua (2013), The Age of internationalism and Belgium, 1880-1930. Peace, Progress and Prestige, Manchester: Manchester University Press (chapter 6: Universalism, 181-210).