Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice

Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice

Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice

Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice

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Overview

Fourteen philosophers, economists and legal scholars address the question 'Can intellectual property rights be fair?' What differentiates intellectual from real property? Should libertarians or Rawlsians defend IP rights? What's wrong with free-riding? How can incentives be taken into account by theories of justice?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230285026
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 10/27/2008
Edition description: 2008
Pages: 277
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

DANIEL ATTAS is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Integrative Program: Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel PAUL BELLEFLAMME is Professor of Economics at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium ALEXANDRA COUTO is at Oxford University, UK GEERT DEMUIJNCK is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Catholic University of Lille, France PETER DIETSCH is Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Université de Montréal, Canada SPERANTA DUMITRU is a Post-doc Research Fellow, CERSES (CNRS and Université Paris-Descartes, France GILLES FALQUET is Professor of Informatics, University of Geneva, Switzerland SHUBHA GHOSH is a Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, USA FRANÇOIS GRIN is Professor of Economics, University of Geneva and a Visiting Professor, University of Lugano, Switzerland ANNABELLE LEVER is a Fellow, Philosophy Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK GIOVANNI BATTISTA RAMELLO is Associate Professor of Industrial Economics, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy SEANA VALENTINE SHIFFRIN is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, LA, USA JONATHAN TRERISE is a Lecturer, Florida International University, Miami, USA

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors How (Un)fair is Intellectual Property?; A.Gosseries Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property; D.Attas Are Rawlsians Entitled to Monopoly Rights?; S.Dumitru Access to vs. Exclusion from Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Efficiency and Social Justice; G.B.Ramello The Incentives Argument for Intellectual Property Protection; S.V.Shiffrin When Property is Something Else: Understanding Intellectual Property Through the Lens of Regulatory Justice; S.Ghosh Liberty and the Rejection of Strong Intellectual Property Rights; J.Trerise Is P2P Sharing of MP3 Files an Objectionable Form of Free-riding?; G.Demuijnck Copyright and Freedom of Expression: A Philosophical Map; A.Couto Free Software, Proprietary Software and Linguistic Justice; G.Falquet & F.Grin How Efficient is the Patent System? A General Appraisal and an Application to the Pharmaceutical Sector; P.Belleflamme Patents on Drugs – The Wrong Prescription?; P.Dietsch Is It Ethical To Patent Human Genes?; A.Lever Index
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