The justification of intellectual property: Contemporary philosophical disputes
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (7):
1143-1161 (2008)Abstract
Once taken for granted as morally legitimate, legal protection
of intellectual property rights have come under
fire in the last 30 years as new technologies have evolved
and severed the link between expression of ideas and
such traditional material-based media as books and magazines.
These advances in digital technology have called
attention to unique features of intellectual content that
problematize intellectual property protection; any piece
of intellectual content, for example, can be simultaneously
appropriated by everyone in the world without
thereby diminishing the supply of that content available
to others. This essay provides an overview and assessment
of the arguments and counterarguments on the
issue of whether intellectual property should be legally
protected.
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