Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas

Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas
ISBN-10
0847684261
ISBN-13
9780847684267
Series
Intellectual Property
Category
Law / International
Pages
387
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Adam D. Moore

Description

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.

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