A Philosophy of Intellectual Property

• Main Author: Drahos, Peter
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt Taylor and Francis 05.12.2016; Dartmouth; Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
• Edition: 1
• Series: Applied Legal Philosophy
• Subjects: Business & Company Law; Intellectual property; Intellectual Property Law; Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law; Library & Information Science; Political Philosophy
• ISBN: 1138254703; 9781138254701; 1855212404; 9781855212404
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315263786

Are intellectual property rights like other property rights? More and more of the world’s knowledge and information is under the control of intellectual property owners. What are the justifications for this? What are the implications for power and for justice of allowing this property form to range...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Some Distinctions -- Economic Theory -- Overview of the Chapters -- A Note on the Subject Areas of Intellectual Property -- 2 Justifying Intellectual Property: Back to the Beginning -- Why History? -- Classifying Intellectual Property: Rome Speaks -- Justifying Intellectual Property -- Copyright -- Patents -- Conclusion -- 3 Locke, Labour and the Intellectual Commons -- Locke's Purposes in 'Of Property' -- Interpreting Locke -- Locke on Intellectual Property -- Community and the Intellectual Commons -- The Intellectual Commons -- Four Types of Community -- Creativity and the Intellectual Commons -- Choosing Community and Common -- Conclusion -- 4 Hegel: The Spirit of Intellectual Property -- Introduction -- Hegel's Property -- The State, Civil Society and Intellectual Property -- Conclusion -- 5 Abstract Objects in Productive Life: Marx's Story -- Introduction -- Marx on Property: Three Orthodox Views and their Application -- Property as Alienation -- Class Control over Abstract Objects -- Ideology Theory -- Creative Labour -- The Tasks of Intellectual Property -- Conclusion -- 6 Property, Opportunity and Self-interest -- Introduction -- The Rationality of Perfect Competition -- Four Functions of Property -- The Appropriation Function -- The Adjustive Function -- The Self-defence Function -- The Planning Function -- The Property in Pay-offs -- Preventive Strategies -- Intellectual Property Factions -- Conclusion -- 7 The Power of Abstract Objects -- Introduction -- Property and Private Sovereignty -- Abstract Objects -- The Power of Abstract Objects -- Conclusion -- 8 The Justice of Information -- Informational Justice -- Information as a Primary Good -- Distributing Information -- Global Informational Justice
• Conclusion -- 9 Intellectual Property: For Instrumentalism, Against Proprietarianism -- The Proprietarian Creed -- Proprietarianism in Action -- Against Proprietarianism -- Towards Instrumentalism -- The Duties of Privilege -- Conclusion -- References -- Index