{"id":6061,"date":"2019-07-08T07:24:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2025-01-16T22:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:23:55","slug":"a-history-of-intellectual-property-in-50-objects-now-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2019\/07\/08\/a-history-of-intellectual-property-in-50-objects-now-published\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects &#8211; now published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects<\/em> (Cambridge University Press) is a book that focuses on 50 objects to tell a history of the intellectual property system, and why it matters today. The book brings together an interesting group of interdisciplinary scholars to tell a wide-ranging audience why they should care about intellectual property. With a focus on accessible objects, such as the light bulb, the Singer sewing machine, the Lego block and Mike Tyson\u2019s tattoo, the book features 50 short and highly-illustrated chapter entries to make these complicated laws available and interesting to all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can read the chapter on the Escalator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/how-escalator-forever-changed-our-sense-space-180972468\/\">here<\/a>, and the one on the Photocopier\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/how-xeroxs-intellectual-property-prevented-anyone-from-copying-copiers-180972536\/\">here<\/a>. You can read one of the first reactions to the book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/quartzy\/1645019\/what-aspirin-chanel-bags-and-coke-bottles-all-have-in-common\/\">here<\/a>, and you can listen to one of the editors explain the idea behind the book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shows.pippa.io\/ipse-dixit\/episodes\/claudy-op-den-kamp-on-the-history-of-intellectual-property-i\">here<\/a>. Get your own copy for 22 GBP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/History-Intellectual-Property-50-Objects\/dp\/110842001X\/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=30A37AAVMUSO5&amp;keywords=a+history+of+intellectual+property+in+50+objects&amp;qid=1562415401&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=a+history+of+intelle%2Caps%2C143&amp;sr=8-1-spons&amp;psc=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book, edited by CIPPM&#8217;s\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2016\/10\/07\/claudy-op-den-kamp\/\">Claudy Op den Kamp<\/a> with Dan Hunter (Swinburne University of Technology), features contributions from CIPPM Faculty Members <a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/02\/19\/maurizio-borghi\/\">Maurizio Borghi<\/a> (Player Piano Roll), <a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2017\/09\/21\/melanie-brown\/\">Melanie Brown<\/a> (Oral Contraceptive Pill) and <a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/04\/23\/dinusha-mendis\/\">Dinusha Mendis<\/a> (3D Printer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (Cambridge University Press) is a book that focuses on 50 objects to tell a history of the intellectual property system, and why it matters today. The book brings together an interesting group of interdisciplinary scholars to tell a wide-ranging audience why they should care about intellectual property&#8230;.  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2019\/07\/08\/a-history-of-intellectual-property-in-50-objects-now-published\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects &#8211; now published<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":842,"featured_media":5978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[18,19,2],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-industries-2","category-knowledge-exchange","tag-focus","tag-highlights","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6062,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions\/6062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}