This timely book analyses the most significant contemporary developments and trends in property law, including the concept of property rights, the role of property law and property rights in society, and the values they enhance.
In the Information Age, historically marginalized groups and developing nations continue to strive for socio-economic empowerment within the global community.
Cass and Hylton explain how technological advances strengthen the case for intellectual property laws, and argue convincingly that IP laws help create a wealthier, more successful, more innovative society than alternative legal systems.
This timely book will strongly appeal to academics, scholars, and postgraduate and PhD students interested in where and how the balance to intellectual property law is, should or could be set.
The book presents case studies showing how diverse knowledge economies are created and how inequalities arise from them.
The book is designed to be accessible to specialists in a number of fields as well as students.
' What differentiates intellectual from real property? Should libertarians or Rawlsians defend IP rights? What's wrong with free-riding? How can incentives be taken into account by theories of justice?
This book discusses the economic, political, legal, and social concerns of the world's governments on intellectual property rights.
Intellectual Property Rights: Critical Concepts in Law
This important collection puts the policy problems in proper perspective by assembling the work of leading scholars and researchers who examine intellectual property rights in terms of how they actually work in legal, economic, and ...