Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas (Philosophy and the Global Context) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 084768427X ISBN 13: 9780847684274

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997

Synopsis

As the expansion of the Internet and the digital formatting of all kinds of creative works move us further into the information age, intellectual property issues have become paramount. Computer programs costing thousands of research dollars are now copied in an instant. People who would recoil at the thought of stealing cars, computers, or VCRs regularly steal software or copy their favorite music from a friend's CD. Since the Web has no national boundaries, these issues are international concerns. The contributors-philosophers, legal theorists, and business scholars, among others-address questions such as: Can abstract ideas be owned? How does the violation of intellectual property rights compare to the violation of physical property rights? Can computer software and other digital information be protected? And how should legal systems accommodate the ownership of intellectual property in an information age? Intellectual Property is a lively examination of these and other issues, and an invaluable resource for librarians, lawyers, businesspeople, and scholars.

About this title

About the Author

Adam Moore is an Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. He is the author of Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations (2010), Intellectual Property and Information Control (2001) and editor of Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power (2005)

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084768427X
• ISBN 13: 9780847684274
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Moore Adam D.