Early Development of Copyright

Here is a list of some books which deal with the early development of the idea of Intellectual Property:

Landis, W. M., & Postner, R. A. (2003). The economic structure of intellectual property law. Harvard:Harvard University Press.

Lowenstein, J. (2008). The author’s due: Printing and the prehistory of copyright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lowenstein, J. (2002). Ben Johnson and possessive authorship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.