ABSTRACT
In modern legal parlance, copyright has become subsumed under a concept of intellectual property. This appears to evoke the justificatory package of individual property rights that has shaped Western societies since John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1690). Legitimising private ownership in the wake of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Locke proposed that by 'mixing' labour with previously common goods a new 'private dominion' would be created.
