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Carla Hesse – "The rise of intellectual property, 700 B.C. – A.D. 2000: an idea in the balance"
The concept of intellectual property – the idea that an idea can be owned – is a child of the European Enlightenment. It was only when people began to believe that knowledge came from the human mind working upon the senses–rather than through div…