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Are you arguing that their current form was invented in America? Because the English crown had patents and copyrights before the USA existed.
by defen 12y ago
Are you arguing that their current form was invented in America? Because the English crown had patents and copyrights before the USA existed.
- marcosdumay 12y agoIn what concerns the rest of the world, it could as well be an all US invention. The UK made nothing to spread it, the US made sure it's more universaly accepted than the Human Rights convention.
- icebraining 12y agoReading your post it almost seems like Berne is an US city. The Berne Convention was developed at the instigation of Victor Hugo of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale. Thus it was influenced by the French "right of the author" (droit d'auteur) (...) Before the Berne Convention, national copyright laws usually only applied for works created within each country. So for example a work published in United Kingdom by a British national would be covered by copyright there, but could be copied and sold by anyone in France. (...) The Berne Convention followed in the footsteps of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883, which in the same way had created a framework for international integration of the other types of intellectual property: patents, trademarks and industrial designs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
- dragonwriter 12y ago> The UK made nothing to spread it Have you heard of the British Empire? The UK did quite a lot to spread their legal traditions.