Macfie, a sugar refiner and Member of Parliament, compiled the speeches and papers of the campaign to abolish patents for inventions. They include his own notes for a Commons motion of May 1868, replies by Sir Roundell Palmer and Lord Stanley, French essays asking whether inventions are property, Bismarck’s message to the North German Parliament and a Dutch debate.
A surprisingly topical record of the first great debate over intellectual property. Download the free EPUB.