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• Intellectual property -- History -- 19th century
• Copyright -- History
• Intellectual property -- Europe -- History
• Intellectual property -- United States -- History

• Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Marie-Stephanie Delamaire and Will Slauter (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Fire of Invention, the Fuel of Interest: On Intellectual Property (Washington: AEI Press, 1996), by Michael Novak (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Wilkie Collins and Copyright: Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Sundeep Bisla (PDF at Ohio State)

• Wilkie Collins and Copyright: Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Sundeep Bisla (PDF at Ohio State)

• Privilege and Property: Essays on the History of Copyright (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook, 2010), ed. by Ronan Deazley, Martin Kretschmer, and Lionel Bently (page images at Google)

• Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), ed. by Lionel Bently and Martin Kretschmer (HTML and page images at copyrighthistory.org)

• The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2014), by Peter Baldwin (PDF at Princeton)

• Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Cynthia J. Brown (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Seven Lectures on the Law and History of Copyright in Books (1899), by Augustine Birrell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Authors, Publishers, and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by James J. Barnes (PDF at Ohio State)

• Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in the United States, 1831-1891 (version 1.1, 2010), by Eric Anderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2014), by Peter Baldwin (PDF at Princeton)
• Authors, Publishers, and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by James J. Barnes (PDF at Ohio State)
• U. S. National Bibliography and the Copyright Law: An Historical Study (New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1960), by Joseph William Rogers, contrib. by Verner W. Clapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illustrated Story of Copyright, by Edward B. Samuels (illustrated HTML with commentary at edwardsamuels.com)

• Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), ed. by Lionel Bently and Martin Kretschmer (HTML and page images at copyrighthistory.org)

• The Fire of Invention, the Fuel of Interest: On Intellectual Property (Washington: AEI Press, 1996), by Michael Novak (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), ed. by Lionel Bently and Martin Kretschmer (HTML and page images at copyrighthistory.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Intellectual Property Strategy (originally published 2012; open access edition published 2019), by John Palfrey
  • PDF files with commentary at MIT
  • HTML at MIT
• Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (with related documents; 2011), by Ian Hargreaves (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• Against Intellectual Monopoly (electronic edition, 2008), by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (PDF with commentary at dklevine.com)
• The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), by James Boyle (PDF and HTML with commentary at thepublicdomain.org)
• The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Random House, c2001), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at the-future-of-ideas.com)
• The Commons: Economic Alternatives in the Digital Age (London: University of Westminster Press, 2020), by Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR
  • multiple formats at Google
• Medieval Hackers (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Kathleen E. Kennedy (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• The Fight for the Future: How People Defeated Hollywood and Saved the Internet-- For Now (c2013), by Edward Lee (PDF with commentary at thefightforthefuture.com)
• Access to Knowledge: A Guide for Everyone (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Frederick Noronha and Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)
• Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (New York: Zone Books, 2010), ed. by Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2010), by F. Gregory Lastowka (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship, and Disciplinary Cultures (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2009), ed. by Carol Peterson Haviland and Joan A. Mullin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Intellectual Property Rights and Plant Biotechnology: Proceedings of a Forum (1997), by National Research Council (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)
• Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2005), by Marjorie Heins and Tricia Beckles (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2002), ed. by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018), by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason M. Schultz (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)
• Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities (1994), ed. by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning and Herbert Lin (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Inventor's Adviser, and Manufacturer's Handbook to Patents, Trade-Marks, Designs, Copyrights, Prints and Labels (c1921), by William C. Linton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The True History of Copyright: The Australian Experience, 1905-2005 (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2007), by Benedict A. C. Atkinson (HTML and PDF with commentary in Australia)

• Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development (2008), ed. by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at Yale)

• Intellectual Property for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014), ed. by B. Courtney Doagoo, Mistrale Goudreau, Madelaine Saginur, and Teresa Scassa (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology (1993), by National Research Council Office of International Affairs, ed. by Mitchel B. Wallerstein, Mary Ellen Mogee, and Roberta A. Schoen (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium (2003), ed. by Julie M. Esanu and P. F. Uhlir (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Mohammad Monirul Azam (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• How Open is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free and Open-Source Software (2005), ed. by Marleen Wynants and Jan Cornelis (PDF in Belgium)
• Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (c2012), by Philippe Aigrain, contrib. by Suzanne Aigrain (PDF with commentary at sharing-thebook.com)

• Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), ed. by Nagla Rizk and Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at aucegypt.edu)

• Safe to Be Open: Study on the Protection of Research Data and Recommendations for Access and Usage (2013), ed. by Lucie M. C. R. Guibault and Andreas Wiebe (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Access to Knowledge in India: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development (2011), ed. by Ramesh Subramanian and Lea Bishop Shaver (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Academic)

• Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2002), ed. by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal (2001-) (full serial archives)
• The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law (2001-) (full serial archives)

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