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from Part III - IP Social Justice: Historical Perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
In 1790, the same year that Congress passed the first federal copyright law, Mercy Otis Warren registered her book Poems, Dramatic & Miscellaneous for copyright protection, becoming likely the first woman to do so in the United States.1 She bequeathed the copyright in the book to her son Winslow, making clear its value to her and noting it was “the only thing I can properly call my own.”2 For Mercy Otis Warren, the copyright was not simply an economic incentive; it was her own small piece of independence – property that was her own in an era where a married woman would otherwise own nothing.
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