Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Justifying Intellectual Property: Back to the Beginning; Locke, Labour and the Intellectual Commons; Hegel: The Spirit of Intellectual Property; Abstract Objects in Productive Life: Marx’s Story; Property, Opportunity and Self-Interest; The Power of Abstract Objects; The Justice of Information; Intellectual Property: For Instrumentalism, Against Proprietarianism.

About the Author

Peter Drahos, Australian National University

Reviews

’Legal scholars, law students and intellectual property lawyers will find this provocative book to be of great interest.’ Bimonthly Review of Law Books ’...this publication has much to offer students, scholars and practitioners of law, philosophy, economics and sociology in reading a broader understanding of the dimensions of intellectual property...a work of great insight...a unique and worthy contribution.’ Prometheus