William Patry, conseiller en propriété intellectuelle de Google , mets en évidence les travaux de deux chercheurs israeliens dans le domaine de la propriété intellectuelle sur son blog :

[...] Intellectual property issues have been debated from a scriptual or Talmudic basis for many centuries. An interesting decree was issued by the Jewish community of Venice in 1623: [...]

A lire un papier de 96 pages sur la phrase de la constitution américaine sur le sujet (PDF) :

Section 8. The Congress shall have power [...] To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

Via Against Monopoly.