Intellectual property and information control : philosophic foundations and contemporary issues
Computer technology and the proliferation of digital networks have radically altered how ideas and information are gathered and manipulated and generated new conflicts between public use and private rights
Print Book, English, ©2004
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Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, ©2004
xv, 252 pages ; 24 cm
9780765808325, 0765808323
1111713760
1: Introduction and Overview; 2: The Domain of Intellectual Property; 3: Against Rule-Utilitarian Intellectual Property; 4: A Pareto-Based Proviso on Original Acquisition; 5: Toward a Lockean Theory of Intellectual Property; 6: Justifying Acts, Systems, and Institutions; 7: A New Look at Copyrights, Patents, and Trade Secrets; 8: Intangible Property: Privacy, Power, and Information Control 1; 9: Employee Monitoring, Nondisclosure Agreements, and Intangible Property 1; 10: Owning Genetic Information and Gene Enhancement Techniques 1; 11: Information Control and Public Policy: The Encryption Debate
Originally published : 2001