Table of Contents

Introduction Annabelle Lever; 1. Autonomy, social selves and intellectual property claims John Christman; 2. Corrective justice and intellectual property rights in traditional knowledge Stephen R. Munzer; 3. 'The genetic code is 3.6 billion years old: it's time for a rewrite': biotech patenting in the twenty-first century Graham Dutfield; 4. On the value of intellectual commons James Wilson; 5. Copyright infringement as compelled speech Abraham Drassinower; 6. Public reason, communication and intellectual property Laura Biron; 7. 'Sharing v. free riding: the case of P2P transmission of MP3 files' Geert Demuijnck; 8. 'The virtuous p(eer)' David Lametti; 9. Intellectual property rights and the TRIPS agreement: an overview of ethical problems and some proposed solutions Jorn Sonderholm; 10. Designing a successor to the patent as second best solution to the problem of optimum provision of good ideas Alexander Rosenberg.

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About the Author

Annabelle Lever is Associate Professor of Normative Political Theory in the Political Science Department at the University of Geneva. She has previously held teaching and research appointments at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Rochester, the London School of Economics and, latterly, at the Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation at Manchester University and at the Chaire Hoover, the University of Louvain.

Reviews

'… this is an excellent and thought-provoking work. Professor Lever has succeeded in putting together a collection which has the feel of a conversation rather than a set of discrete articles, found, in particular, in the way in which the contributors constantly refer to one another's work. I recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the latest work on philosophy and IP.' Francis Davey, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice