In the broadest terms my goal in this work is to justify rights to intellectual property. Rule-
utilitarians who offer incentives based arguments think that this goal is easily attained …

In what follows, a Lockean theory of intellectual property rights will be explained and
defended. In part, I will argue that the non-rivalrous nature of intellectual property, mentioned …

Gordon Hull of strong Intellectual Property (IP) rights or of a nonutilitarian basis for those
rights often turn to Locke for support. 1 Perhaps because of a general belief that Locke is an …

Locke's theory of property is one of the more influential readily available accounts. In Two
Treatises of Government he discusses only tangible property, and it would be somewhat …

A general form of Locke's famous argument for property rights includes self-ownership,
labor, value creation, nonwaste, and leaving" enough and as good" for others.'For Locke …

Property institutions fundamentally shape a society. These legal relationships between
individuals, different sorts of objects, and the state are not easy to justify. This is especially …

Fourteen philosophers, economists and legal scholars address the question'Can intellectual
property rights be fair?'What differentiates intellectual from real property? Should libertarians …

This paper uses two recentworks as a springboard for discussing theproper contours of
intellectual propertyprotection. Professor Lessig devotes much of The Future of Ideas to …

Given the ever-widening acceptance of a right to protection of intellectual property (IP), one
might assume that there is at least implicitly an equally broad and agreed upon rationale or …

The issue of whether the state is morally justified in affording content creators a legal right to
exclude others from the content of their creations is a sharply contested issue in information …