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Palgrave Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice by A. Gosseries, A. Marcianò, A. Strowel
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?_x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
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_x000D_