The Intellectual Property of Nations Book contents
- The Intellectual Property of Nations
- The Intellectual Property of Nations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Legal Institutions and Social Power
- 2 Legal Orders and Social Performance
- 3 Instruments of Legal Power in the Roman Republic
- 4 Semantic Legal Ordering
- 5 Cultural Transformations
- 6 Privileges and Immunities in a Sacramentalizing Order
- 7 Administrative Kingship and Covenantal Bonds
- 8 Intellectual Property in a Nationalizing Order
- 9 Cultural Transformations
- 10 Semantic Legal Ordering
- 11 Instruments of Legal Power in the American Republic
- 12 Legal Orders and Social Performance
- Conclusion The Intellectual Property of Nations
- Index
2 - Legal Orders and Social Performance
Founding Facebook
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2021
- The Intellectual Property of Nations
- The Intellectual Property of Nations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Legal Institutions and Social Power
- 2 Legal Orders and Social Performance
- 3 Instruments of Legal Power in the Roman Republic
- 4 Semantic Legal Ordering
- 5 Cultural Transformations
- 6 Privileges and Immunities in a Sacramentalizing Order
- 7 Administrative Kingship and Covenantal Bonds
- 8 Intellectual Property in a Nationalizing Order
- 9 Cultural Transformations
- 10 Semantic Legal Ordering
- 11 Instruments of Legal Power in the American Republic
- 12 Legal Orders and Social Performance
- Conclusion The Intellectual Property of Nations
- Index
Summary
This chapter establishes a basis for the book's meta-narrative in a present-day context, highlighting the importance of intellectual property - particularly patents - for the foundation of Facebook. The chapter emphasizes the weaving together of formality and substantive rationality in contemporary patents, which are theorized as instruments of legal power. By showing how patents were important in the founding of Facebook, the chapter emphasizes the role that instruments of legal power - like patents - can play in linking people together into social groups, classes, and networks. Michael Mann's IEMP model for social power helps us to understand the dynamics of exclusivity, as seen in contemporary intellectual property, particularly in patents.
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- The Intellectual Property of NationsSociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution, pp. 57 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021