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Theory and Policy of Intellectual Property
Eric E. Johnson
ericejohnson.com Konomark
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Preliminaries
The why of intellectual
property
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Four baskets for theory/policy arguments:
• Utilitarianism • Labor-desert theory • Personality theory • Cultural primacy
Four baskets for theory/policy arguments:
• Utilitarianism • Labor-desert theory • Personality theory • Cultural primacy
Based on work by Prof. William Fisher
Fisher calls this “social planning theory.”
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Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
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“"the greatest happiness of the greatest number ...
is the measure of right and wrong”
John Stuart Mill
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Richard Posner
Labor-desert theory
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John Locke
Personality theory
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Cultural primacy theory