P. Sean Morris (Univ. of Helsinki - Law) has published
The Silent Peacemaker: Intellectual Property Rights and the Interwar International Legal Order, 1919–1939 (Brill | Nijhoff 2024). The table of contents is
here. Here's the abstract:
This collection of essays explores the role intellectual property played in the interwar period and the expansion and protection of intellectual property rights. The geographical scope of the book is global so as to give perspectives from different regions on how intellectual property law developed. The topics covered range from a synopsis of intellectual property in Jewish works confiscated by the Nazis to how intellectual property can be understood as part of the evolution of inventors’ moral rights. This volume’s aim is to develop new narratives on the ideas and structures of intellectual property during the interwar period and on how those ideas and structures were held together by the competing forces of markets, ownership and political ideals of the international legal order at that time.
