Legal English: Sumptuary Laws and Intellectual Property

Harvard Law Review:
Intellectual Property Law and the Sumptuary Code

Article by Barton Beebe
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/123/february10/Article_6838.php

http://ip.jotwell.com/consumption-based-distinctions-consuming-themselves-the-rise-and-fall-of-intellectual-property-as-the-enabler-of-a-sumptuary-code/