Intellectual Property Legislation in the Ottoman Era and its Effects on Knowledge Production

The development level of all countries is parallel with the importance given to the products of intellectual labor in the information recording media produced by different methods and formats, and the incentives provided to them. İn order to promote to promote, supervise and protect the production of these products of intellectual labor that generate the national accumulation of knowledge, and to put them into this service of the users, various legal arrangements have been used from past to present. It is possible to gather these legal arrangements under the heading of intellectual property (IP) legislation. In this study, it is aimed to consider the emergence of the intellectual property legislation in the Ottoman Era and its development from the historical point of view, as well as its contribution and effects on knowledge production. The data within the scope of the research using a historical method, was gathered by using the observation and document scanning techniques.