Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World: Theory and Practice

by Spinello, Richard A.; Tavani, Herman T.

• ISBN13: 9781591405764
• ISBN10: 1591405769
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-02
• Publisher: Igi Global

Summary

Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World is a collection of recent essays offering some fresh perspectives on the scope and future of intellectual property rights. The tripartite division of the book makes this interdisciplinary topic more acces

Author Biography

Richard A. Spinello is an associate research professor in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College (USA) Herman T. Tavani is professor and chair of the Philosophy Department and director of the Liberal Studies Program at Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire (USA) Ann Bartow has been an assistant professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law (USA) since August 2000 Elizabeth Buchanan is assistant professor and co-director of the Center for Information Policy Research at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA) Dan Burk holds the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professorship in Law at the University of Minnesota (USA) James Campbell works as a communication planning and production specialist with both non-profit and for-profit enterprises Kai Kimppa works as an assistant professor of Information Systems at University of Turku (Finland) Melanie J. Mortensen is an associate with the Montreal law firm Greenspoon Perreault (Canada) Thomas M. Powers is National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, USA Michael J. Scanlan is an associate professor at Oregon State University (USA)

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
Preface	ix
SECTION I: OVERVIEW
Chapter I Intellectual Property Rights: From Theory to Practical Implementation	1	(66)
Richard A. Spinello, Boston College, USA
Herman T. Tavani, Rivier College, USA
SECTION II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter II Intellectual Property Rights in Software - Justifiable from a Liberalist Position? Free Software Foundation's Position in Comparison to John Locke's Concept of Property	67	(16)
Kai Kimppa, University of Turku, Finland
Chapter III Locke and Intellectual Property Rights	83	(16)
Michael J. Scanlan, Oregon State University, USA
Chapter IV Ideas, Expressions, Universals, and Particulars: Metaphysics in the Realm of Software Copyright Law	99	(14)
Thomas M. Powers, University of Virginia, USA
SECTION III: ETHICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter V Exporting Trademark Confusion	113	(48)
Ann Bartow, University of South Carolina, USA
Chapter VI Feminism and Copyright in Digital Media	161	(21)
Dan Burk, University of Minnesota, USA
Chapter VII Recent Copyright Protection Schemes: Implications for Sharing Digital Information	182	(23)
Herman T. Tavani, Rivier College, USA
Chapter VIII Trespass and Kyosei in Cyberspace	205	(20)
Richard A. Spinello, Boston College, USA
Chapter IX New Threats to Intellectual Freedom: The Loss of the Information Commons through Law and Technology in the US	225	(18)
Elizabeth Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA James Campbell, Modular Media, USA
Chapter X Would Be Pirates: Webcasters, Intellectual Property, and Ethics	243	(32)
Melanie J. Mortensen, Montreal, Canada
About the Authors	275	(3)
Index	278