Alexander Wedderburn
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Wedderburn
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Lord Chancellor (later Lord Loughborough), who denounced Bentham's principle of utility as a dangerous principle.
“This principle of utility,” he said, “is a dangerous principle.
Yet Wedderburn, from his own point of view, formed a just estimate of the principle of utility.
The shrewdness or the selfishness of Wedderburn at once scented the revolutionary tendency of utilitarian reform.
The Law of Intellectual Property
Counsel who argued for the copyright side, conceding inventors had no common-law property in inventions.
“It had been contended that the inventor of an orrery was in the same predicament as an author, when he published.
Wedderburn, counsel, speaking for the copyright, made the fatal concession that the author of a mechanical invention had, at common law, no property in his invention, but only in the machines he made;