Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World: Theory and Practice - Softcover

Tavani, Herman T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591405777 ISBN 13: 9781591405771

Publisher: Igi Global, 2004

Synopsis

Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World is a collection of recent essays offering fresh perspectives on the scope and future of intellectual property rights. The tripartite division of the book is designed to make this inter-disciplinary topic more accessible and intelligible to readers of diverse backgrounds. Part I consists of a single essay that provides a broad overview of the main themes in intellectual property scholarship, such as normative intellectual property theory and the legal infrastructure for property protection. The second section of the book presents several essays that are intended to deepen the reader's understanding of intellectual property theory and show how it can help us to grapple with the proper allocation of property rights in cyberspace. And the final section further develops the themes in Part II but in greater detail and with a more practical orientation. While intellectual property rights create dynamic incentive effects, they also entail social costs, and they are sometimes in tension with the development of a robust public domain.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Richard A. Spinello is an Associate Research Professor in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College where he teaches courses on information technology ethics, social issues in management, and corporate strategy. Prior to joining the faculty of Boston College he worked as a programmer and marketing manager in the software industry. He has written and edited five books on information technology ethics, including CyberEthics: Morality an Law in Cyberspace and Regulating Cyberspace: The Policies and Technologies of Control. He has also written numerous articles and scholarly papers on ethics and management that have appeared in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly and Ethics and Information Technology.

Dr. Herman T. Tavani is Chair of the Philosophy Department and Director of the Liberal Studies Program at Rivier College, Nashua, NH. He is Co-Executive Director of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT) and Secretary/Treasurer of the Association for Computing’s Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (ACM SIGCAS). The author of numerous publications in computer ethics, including his recent book Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology, he is Book Review Editor of the journal Ethics and Information Technology, Bibliography Editor of Computers and Society Magazine, and Editor of the INSEIT Newsletter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Igi Global
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1591405777
• ISBN 13: 9781591405771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Spinello Richard A.