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Notes On Value And Property - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1985

Notes On Value And Property - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon

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My contention is that “value” should not be the basis for legal protection unless (a) there’s social as well as private value invoked and (b) the legal protection is necessary for the generation of, or protection of, the social value.


Notes On Value - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1985

Notes On Value - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon

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The relation between value and property is very much at the core of this paper. First, as a theoretical matter (Holmes; the Ordinary Observer; custom and interactive pattern.) Second, intellectual products have increased greatly in value, shown both by statistics [3] and also by that unfortunate but fairly reliable secondary indicator of a phenomenon’s social importance: the volume of litigation concerning it.