Intellectual Property: General Theories

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/42
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Type:	Book Chapter
Author:	Menell, Peter S.; Bouckaert, B.; de Geest, G.
Book Title:	Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Publisher:	Edward Elgar
Location:	Northampton, MA
Page(s):	129-188
Date:	2000
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/42
Sector:	Theory Information & Knowledge
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Subject(s):	law intellectual property rights--economics intellectual property rights--theory copyright patents public goods and bads
Abstract:	"This chapter surveys and synthesizes the deepening and widening theoretical landscape of intellectual property. Not surprisingly, the principal philosophical theory applied to the protection of utilitarian works - that is, technological inventions - has been utilitarianism. Utilitarian theorists generally endorse the creation of intellectual property rights as an appropriate means to foster innovation. Non-utilitarian theorists emphasize creators' moral rights to control their work. Many of these scholars draw upon multiple philosophical strands in constructing their analyses."

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