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Current Patent Laws Cannot Claim The Backing Of Human Rights - 2008, Wendy J. Gordon
Current Patent Laws Cannot Claim The Backing Of Human Rights - 2008, Wendy J. Gordon
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The majority of the world's countries (one exception being the United States) have undertaken a commitment at the level of human rights to protect the interests of persons who author 'scientific ... production[s]'. This commitment is embodied in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which recognizes in Article 15.1.(c) the rights of everyone 'to benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.'
Do Patents Perform Like Property?, Michael J. Meurer, James Bessen
Do Patents Perform Like Property?, Michael J. Meurer, James Bessen
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Do patents provide critical incentives to encourage investment in innovation? Or, instead, do patents impose legal risks and burdens on innovators that discourage innovation, as some critics now claim? This paper reviews empirical economic evidence on how well patents perform as a property system.
Moral Philosophy, Information Technology, And Copyright, Wendy J. Gordon
Moral Philosophy, Information Technology, And Copyright, Wendy J. Gordon
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A plethora of philosophical issues arise where copyright and patent laws intersect with information technology. Given the necessary brevity of the chapter, my strategy will be to make general observations that can be applied to illuminate one particular issue. I have chosen the issue considered in MGM v. Grokster,2 a recent copyright case from the U.S. Supreme Court Grokster, Ltd., provided a decentralized peer-to-peer technology that many people, typically students, used to copy and distribute music in ways that violated copyright law. The Supreme Court addressed the extent to which Grokster and other technology providers should be held …