The Early History of Copyright and Intellectual Property Law

In this http://www.artistshousemusic.org interview, Russell Rains, a lawyer and Director of the Digital Media Management MBA Program at St. Edward's University in Austin, TX, gives a capsule history of intellectual property and copyright law in the Western tradition, from its genesis as an offshoot of property rights in the eighteenth century and its enshrinement in the United States Constitution, through the past two centuries of tension between the law and new technologies that continually challenge the ability of the law to adequately encompass what they can do.

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[mythrail]

If this was supposed to support the validity of copyright, then it utterly failed. This was a series of logical fallacies presented as legitimate arguments. It included (but was not limited to): appeals to tradition, appeals to law and appeals to consequences.