The Moral dimensions of intellectual property rights [electronic resource] / Ang Steven

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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Table of cases; Table of legal instruments; 1. The idea of the moral dimensions of IPRs; 2. Moral terms, moral meaning and morality; 3. The moral dimension of justification; 4. The dimension of design: National systems; 5. International IP laws and the moral dimension of design; 6. The moral dimensions of law: Interpretation and aims; 7. The moral dimension of the exercise of IPRs; 8. The moral dimension of reform of IPRs; 9. Conclusions on the moral dimensions of IPRs; Bibliography; Index

This highly original and exploratory book analyses the role morality plays in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs).Steven Ang builds his idea that the justification for IPRs is bound up with a simultaneous duty to share part of that intellectual resource through public rights of access and a public domain which is facilitated by the moral elements in the various dimensions of IPR. In a globalized world with globalizing IPRs where culturally assumed norms must be re-examined, this work has an urgent and important contribution to make because it takes the main features of internationally mandated.