Cover -- New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property -- Series editor -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Table of cases -- Australia -- Canada -- Court of Justice of the European Union -- European Patent Office -- Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- United Kingdom -- United States -- World Trade Organization -- Table of legislation and treaties -- Africa -- Australia -- Canada -- Europe -- Latin America -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Introduction: Philosophy of intellectual property - incentives, rights and duties -- Control rights and income rights in ideas -- Restorative justice, autonomy and intellectual property -- Welfare, efficiency and idealisation -- Invention, law and morality -- Copyright, freedom and communication -- Morality, sharing and free riding -- 1: Autonomy, social selves and intellectual property claims -- I. Autonomy and autonomy-related interests -- The value of autonomy -- II. Individual autonomy and the social self -- III. Autonomy and the complexity of ownership -- IV. Autonomy and IP -- IP claims for cultural products -- V. Conclusion -- 2: Corrective justice and intellectual property rights in traditional knowledge -- I. Laying the groundwork -- II. The argument -- III. A fool's errand thrice over? -- IV. Easy cases -- V. Hard cases: transgenerational harms and the non-identity problem -- VI. Hard cases: autonomy, self-governance and remedies for violations of diffuse interests and rights -- VII. Prospect -- 3: Designing a successor to the patent as second best solution to the problem of optimum provision of good ideas -- 1. The near-public goods character of good ideas and argument for intellectual property rights -- 2. How the productivity argument and technological change weaken the case for intellectual property rights.

3. The non-property reward regime of pure science -- 4. Adapting the regime of scientific discovery to the domain of invention -- 5. Conclusion: rent-seeking and the problem of information -- 4: Ethical issues surrounding intellectual property rights -- 1. Introduction -- 2. IPRs and the problems of access and availability -- 3. Two standard solutions to the access problem -- 4. Two defences of the ethical legitimacy of IPRs -- 5. Where to go from here? -- 5: On the value of the intellectual commons -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Is philosophy useful for thinking about problems of regulation? -- 3. Private IP and moral rights -- 3.1 Ruling out options (1) and (2): there cannot be a moral right to own IP -- 3.2 The 'no hardship' argument -- 4. The appropriate goals of intellectual property regulation -- Liberty -- Making best use of resources -- Equality -- 5. Balancing rights and goals in IP regulation -- 5.1 Prospects for answering the empirical question -- 5.2 Prospects of answering the normative question -- 6. Conclusion -- 6: Immorality and patents: The exclusion of inventions contrary to ordre public and morality -- I. Introduction -- II. Background -- III. Issues in the interpretation of an explicit immorality exclusion -- (a) The focus of the moral inquiry -- (b) The standard of immorality required to trigger the exclusion -- IV. Deeper issues -- V. Article 53(a) as a policy lever for judges and patent examiners -- Which test of 'morality'? -- What evidence? -- Are the concepts of 'ordre public' and 'morality' separate and distinct? -- Must an invention or activity be illegal before it triggers the patent exclusion? -- What happens if standards of morality change during the twenty-year period following the filing of a patent? -- What happens if an invention has different applications, some of which are moral and some of which are immoral?.

VI. Embryo stem cell patents: the current controversy -- VII. Conclusion -- Post Script -- 7: 'The genetic code is 3.6 billion years old: it's time for a rewrite': Questioning the metaphors and analogies of synthetic biology and life science patenting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is synthetic biology? -- Creating minimal genomes -- The 'standardisation of parts, devices and systems' -- Metabolic engineering -- 3. Metaphor and analogy in the life sciences -- Explanation in biology: chemistry, mechanism, information and systems engineering -- From machine to mechanism -- Engineering -- Does the analogy work? -- 4. Intellectual property and synthetic biology -- 8: Copyright infringement as compelled speech -- I. Introduction -- II. Speaking in one's own words -- III. Baker v. Selden -- IV. Compelled speech -- V. Dialogue -- VI. Concluding remarks -- 9: Public reason, communication and intellectual property -- Introduction: concerns about propertisation -- 1. Copyright law -- 1.1 Copyright expansionism -- 1.2 Kant's writings on copyright -- 1.3 Copyright law revisited -- 2. Trade mark law -- 2.1 Speech vs. property -- 2.2 Allusive uses of trade marks -- 2.3 Allusion and speech: Kantian communication -- 3. Patent law's information function -- 3.1 Public reason: information and intelligibility -- Conclusion -- 10: Illegal downloading, free riding and justice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Is free riding immoral? -- 3. Free riding and public goods -- 4. Intellectual goods as public goods -- 5. Is P2P sharing of MP3 files unfairly free riding on 'public goods'? -- 6. Harmless copying in the absence of market interaction -- 8. Adding insult to injury: the unfairness of punishing illegal downloaders -- 9. Conclusion -- 11: The virtuous p(eer): reflections on the ethics of file sharing -- Introduction -- Music file sharing as virtuous.

i. The virtue ethics of copyright -- II. The context of copyright: 'copynorms' -- iii. Sharing music -- Finding the mean -- Bibliography -- Index.

Examines the justification of patents, copyrights and trademarks in light of the political controversy over the TRIPS agreement.

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