Antedating of "Intellectual Property"

[Fred Shapiro]

intellectual property (OED 1845)

1807-8 _The Medical Repository of Original Essays and Intelligence_ XI.
303  (heading) New-England Association in favour of Inventors and
Discoverers, and particularly for the Protection of intellectual Property.

Fred Shapiro


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