Wordsworth, Girard et la question de la propriété intellectuelle

Abstract

Firstly the present paper examines the impact of some romantic ideas on copyright and authorsrights laws and then it proposes different regimes of intelectual property. The paper is dividedinto three parts. The first part is about the existential reasons that determined Wordsworth toformulate his romantic ideology. The second part examines the connections between thisideology and the laws of intelectual property. The third part features the new forms ofintelectual property such as the General Public Licence and the Creative Commons in order toargue that they follow the Girardian perspective of positive imitation.