List of contributors ....................................... vii
Acknowledgements ............................................ ix
Table of cases .............................................. xi
Table of legislation and treaties .......................... xiv
Introduction: Philosophy of intellectual property -
incentives, rights and duties
ANNABELLE LEVER .............................................. 1
1 Autonomy, social selves and intellectual property claims
JOHN CHRISTMAN .............................................. 33
2 Corrective justice and intellectual property rights in
traditional knowledge
STEPHEN R. MUNZER ........................................... 58
3 Designing a successor to the patent as second best
solution to the problem of optimum provision of good
ideas
ALEX ROSENBERG .............................................. 88
4 Ethical issues surrounding intellectual property rights
JORN SONDERHOLM ............................................ 110
5 On the value of the intellectual commons
JAMES WILSON ............................................... 122
6 Immorality and patents: The exclusion of inventions
contrary to ordre public and morality
KATHLEEN LIDDELL ........................................... 140
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
GRAHAM DUTFIELD ............................................ 172
8 Copyright infringement as compelled speech
ABRAHAM DRASSINOWER ........................................ 203
9 Public reason, communication and intellectual property
LAURA BIRON ................................................ 225
10 Illegal downloading, free riding and justice
GEERT DEMUIJNCK ............................................ 261
11 The virtuous p(eer): Reflections on the ethics of
file sharing
DAVID LAMETTI .............................................. 284
Bibliography ............................................... 307
Index ...................................................... 329
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