Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors How (Un)fair is Intellectual Property?; A.Gosseries Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property; D.Attas Are Rawlsians Entitled to Monopoly Rights?; S.Dumitru Access to vs. Exclusion from Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Efficiency and Social Justice; G.B.Ramello The Incentives Argument for Intellectual Property Protection; S.V.Shiffrin When Property is Something Else: Understanding Intellectual Property Through the Lens of Regulatory Justice; S.Ghosh Liberty and the Rejection of Strong Intellectual Property Rights; J.Trerise Is P2P Sharing of MP3 Files an Objectionable Form of Free-riding?; G.Demuijnck Copyright and Freedom of Expression: A Philosophical Map; A.Couto Free Software, Proprietary Software and Linguistic Justice; G.Falquet & F.Grin How Efficient is the Patent System? A General Appraisal and an Application to the Pharmaceutical Sector; P.Belleflamme Patents on Drugs - The Wrong Prescription?; P.Dietsch Is It Ethical To Patent Human Genes?; A.Lever Index

DANIEL ATTAS is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Integrative Program: Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelPAUL BELLEFLAMME is Professor of Economics at Université catholique de Louvain, BelgiumALEXANDRA COUTO is at Oxford University, UKGEERT DEMUIJNCK is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Catholic University of Lille, FrancePETER DIETSCH is Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Université de Montréal, CanadaSPERANTA DUMITRU is a Post-doc Research Fellow, CERSES (CNRS and Université Paris-Descartes, FranceGILLES FALQUET is Professor of Informatics, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandSHUBHA GHOSH is a Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, USAFRANÇOIS GRIN is Professor of Economics, University of Geneva and a Visiting Professor, University of Lugano, SwitzerlandANNABELLE LEVER is a Fellow, Philosophy Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKGIOVANNI BATTISTA RAMELLO is Associate Professor of Industrial Economics, Università del Piemonte Orientale, ItalySEANA VALENTINE SHIFFRIN is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, LA, USA JONATHAN TRERISE is a Lecturer, Florida International University, Miami, USA