Intellectual Property Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas |
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| Editor:
| Moore, Adam D. |
| Contribution by:
| Barlow, John P.
Carey, David H.
Child, James W.
Hamilton, Marci A.
Hansen, Hugh C.
Hettinger, Edwin C.
Hughes, Justin
Krauss, Michael I.
Meyer, Charles J.
Paine, Lynn Sharp
Palmer, Tom C.
Spafford, Eugene H.
Stallman, Richard |
| Series title: | Philosophy and the Global Context Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8476-8427-4 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1997 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $31.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionAs 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.