The notion of intellectual property is a carryover from the Greek conquest of Egypt in the 4th century, with its access to the Great Library and Museum at Alexandria, Egypt. This conquest by Alexander of Macedonia enabled Greek citizens to do what Egyptians had never done: claim in any name works of science, philosophy, art, mathematics, religion, literature, etc., over 4,000 years of its previous existence .
My suspicions in this respect were affirmed yesterday in the book, WRITINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT (2016), translated and introduced by Toby Wilkinson, who says : "Second, and equally odd to the Western mind, is the lack of authorial tradition in ancient Egypt. While writers from ancient Greece and Rome are household names--Euripides and Plato, Pliny and Virgil--there is not a single named ancient Egyptian writer with an attributed body of work. A few sages were revered in ancient Egypt for their wisdom--men like Imhotep , deified centuries after his death as a god of learning and healing--and a very few were said to have composed writings--usually princes or high officials from the Pyramid Age, like Hordadef and Ptahhotep--but pharaonic culture valued perfection within an established tradition over individual creativity. Hence, just as there are no famous writers from ancient Egypt, so there are no known artists and precious few named sculptors. For Western scholarship, where a written work is inextricably linked with its author (ironically, a mode of classification that began in Egypt, in the Great Library of Alexandria), this represents a fundamental hurdle to the wider appreciation of ancient Egyptian writing." P. xiv, "Introduction"
Thus, individual intellectual property is not African, but is European back to the 4th century, descending down to common law.
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Sunday, March 26, 2017
"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" IS OF EUROPEAN DESCENT
The notion of intellectual property is a carryover from the Greek conquest of Egypt in the 4th century, with its access to the Great Library and Museum at Alexandria, Egypt. This conquest by Alexander of Macedonia enabled Greek citizens to do what Egyptians had never done: claim in any name works of science, philosophy, art, mathematics, religion, literature, etc., over 4,000 years of its previous existence .
My suspicions in this respect were affirmed yesterday in the book, WRITINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT (2016), translated and introduced by Toby Wilkinson, who says : "Second, and equally odd to the Western mind, is the lack of authorial tradition in ancient Egypt. While writers from ancient Greece and Rome are household names--Euripides and Plato, Pliny and Virgil--there is not a single named ancient Egyptian writer with an attributed body of work. A few sages were revered in ancient Egypt for their wisdom--men like Imhotep , deified centuries after his death as a god of learning and healing--and a very few were said to have composed writings--usually princes or high officials from the Pyramid Age, like Hordadef and Ptahhotep--but pharaonic culture valued perfection within an established tradition over individual creativity. Hence, just as there are no famous writers from ancient Egypt, so there are no known artists and precious few named sculptors. For Western scholarship, where a written work is inextricably linked with its author (ironically, a mode of classification that began in Egypt, in the Great Library of Alexandria), this represents a fundamental hurdle to the wider appreciation of ancient Egyptian writing." P. xiv, "Introduction"
Thus, individual intellectual property is not African, but is European back to the 4th century, descending down to common law.
http://gizmodo.com/supreme-court-printer-cartridge-case-could-be-the-citiz-1793643311?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-03-26