Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice
Contributors: Axel Gosseries (Editor); Alain Strowel (Editor); Alain Marciano (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230007093
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Political; Philosophy / Political; Philosophy
Description: "In this volume, fourteen philosophers, economists and legal scholars and one computer scientist address various facets of the same question: under which conditions (if any) can intellectual property rights be fair? This general question unfolds in a variety of others. This requires a close examination of a variety of specific issues such as peer-to-peer file sharing, access to vital medicines, the interaction between copyright and freedom of expression, patents on genes, etc. It also involves bringing together state-of-the-art knowledge on legal, economic and technical issues with the most advanced state of our normative theories."--BOOK JACKET.