Eudemonic intellectual property: patents and related rights as engines of happiness, peace, and sustainability
The predominant justification for most intellectual property rights is the incentive theory or utilitarian rationale. Behind this justification lies the Western idea of progress and its derivatives: liberalism, capitalism, and consumerism. After having shown that the predominant justification for in...
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Vanderbilt University Law School
2012
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1700/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1700/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1700/1/Derclaye-vjtel_as_published.pdf |