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Authors: Peter Drahos
ISBN-13: 9781855212404, ISBN-10: 1855212404
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: November 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Peter Drahos

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Table of Contents

Series Preface
Preface and Acknowledgements
1Introduction1
2Justifying Intellectual Property: Back to the Beginning13
3Locke, Labour and the Intellectual Commons41
4Hegel: The Spirit of Intellectual Property73
5Abstract Objects in Productive Life: Marx's Story95
6Property, Opportunity and Self-interest119
7The Power of Abstract Objects145
8The Justice of Information171
9Intellectual Property: For Instrumentalism, Against Proprietarianism199
References229
Index251

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