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New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property [electronic resource].

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge intellectual property and information lawPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (362 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781139525879 (electronic bk.)
  • 1139525875 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780511920837 (electronic bk.)
  • 0511920830 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property.DDC classification:
  • 346.048
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Contents:
Cover; New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property; Series editor; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Australia; Canada; Court of Justice of the European Union; European Patent Office; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; United Kingdom; United States; World Trade Organization; Table of legislation and treaties; Africa; Australia; Canada; Europe; Latin America; United Kingdom; United States; Introduction: Philosophy of intellectual property -- incentives, rights and duties; Control rights and income rights in ideas.
Restorative justice, autonomy and intellectual propertyWelfare, efficiency and idealisation; Invention, law and morality; Copyright, freedom and communication; Morality, sharing and free riding; 1: Autonomy, social selves and intellectual property claims; I. Autonomy and autonomy-related interests; The value of autonomy; II. Individual autonomy and the social self; III. Autonomy and the complexity of ownership; IV. Autonomy and IP; IP claims for cultural products; V. Conclusion; 2: Corrective justice and intellectual property rights in traditional knowledge; I. Laying the groundwork.
II. The argumentIII. A fool's errand thrice over?; IV. Easy cases; V. Hard cases: transgenerational harms and the non-identity problem; VI. Hard cases: autonomy, self-governance and remedies for violations of diffuse interests and rights; VII. Prospect; 3: Designing a successor to the patent as second best solution to the problem of optimum provision of good ideas; 1. The near-public goods character of good ideas and argument for intellectual property rights; 2. How the productivity argument and technological change weaken the case for intellectual property rights.
3. The non-property reward regime of pure science4. Adapting the regime of scientific discovery to the domain of invention; 5. Conclusion: rent-seeking and the problem of information; 4: Ethical issues surrounding intellectual property rights; 1. Introduction; 2. IPRs and the problems of access and availability; 3. Two standard solutions to the access problem; 4. Two defences of the ethical legitimacy of IPRs; 5. Where to go from here?; 5: On the value of the intellectual commons; 1. Introduction; 2. Is philosophy useful for thinking about problems of regulation?
3. Private IP and moral rights3.1 Ruling out options (1) and (2): there cannot be a moral right to own IP; 3.2 The 'no hardship' argument; 4. The appropriate goals of intellectual property regulation; Liberty; Making best use of resources; Equality; 5. Balancing rights and goals in IP regulation; 5.1 Prospects for answering the empirical question; 5.2 Prospects of answering the normative question; 6. Conclusion; 6: Immorality and patents: The exclusion of inventions contrary to ordre public and morality; I. Introduction; II. Background.
Summary: Examines the justification of patents, copyrights and trademarks in light of the political controversy over the TRIPS agreement.
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III. Issues in the interpretation of an explicit immorality exclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property; Series editor; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Australia; Canada; Court of Justice of the European Union; European Patent Office; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; United Kingdom; United States; World Trade Organization; Table of legislation and treaties; Africa; Australia; Canada; Europe; Latin America; United Kingdom; United States; Introduction: Philosophy of intellectual property -- incentives, rights and duties; Control rights and income rights in ideas.

Restorative justice, autonomy and intellectual propertyWelfare, efficiency and idealisation; Invention, law and morality; Copyright, freedom and communication; Morality, sharing and free riding; 1: Autonomy, social selves and intellectual property claims; I. Autonomy and autonomy-related interests; The value of autonomy; II. Individual autonomy and the social self; III. Autonomy and the complexity of ownership; IV. Autonomy and IP; IP claims for cultural products; V. Conclusion; 2: Corrective justice and intellectual property rights in traditional knowledge; I. Laying the groundwork.

II. The argumentIII. A fool's errand thrice over?; IV. Easy cases; V. Hard cases: transgenerational harms and the non-identity problem; VI. Hard cases: autonomy, self-governance and remedies for violations of diffuse interests and rights; VII. Prospect; 3: Designing a successor to the patent as second best solution to the problem of optimum provision of good ideas; 1. The near-public goods character of good ideas and argument for intellectual property rights; 2. How the productivity argument and technological change weaken the case for intellectual property rights.

3. The non-property reward regime of pure science4. Adapting the regime of scientific discovery to the domain of invention; 5. Conclusion: rent-seeking and the problem of information; 4: Ethical issues surrounding intellectual property rights; 1. Introduction; 2. IPRs and the problems of access and availability; 3. Two standard solutions to the access problem; 4. Two defences of the ethical legitimacy of IPRs; 5. Where to go from here?; 5: On the value of the intellectual commons; 1. Introduction; 2. Is philosophy useful for thinking about problems of regulation?

3. Private IP and moral rights3.1 Ruling out options (1) and (2): there cannot be a moral right to own IP; 3.2 The 'no hardship' argument; 4. The appropriate goals of intellectual property regulation; Liberty; Making best use of resources; Equality; 5. Balancing rights and goals in IP regulation; 5.1 Prospects for answering the empirical question; 5.2 Prospects of answering the normative question; 6. Conclusion; 6: Immorality and patents: The exclusion of inventions contrary to ordre public and morality; I. Introduction; II. Background.

Examines the justification of patents, copyrights and trademarks in light of the political controversy over the TRIPS agreement.

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