Alexander Wedderburn
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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.
The shrewdness or the selfishness of Wedderburn at once scented the revolutionary tendency of utilitarian reform.
In a Government which had for its end in view the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Alexander Wedderburn might have been Attorney-General and then Chancellor;
“This principle of utility,” he said, “is a dangerous principle.
The Law of Intellectual Property
Counsel who argued for the copyright side, conceding inventors had no common-law property in inventions.
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;
“It had been contended that the inventor of an orrery was in the same predicament as an author, when he published.