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Intellectual Property Rights in Software: Justifiable from a Liberalist Position? - The Free Software Foundation's Position in Comparison to John Locke's Concept of Property

Kai Kimppa, Intellectual Property Rights in Software: Justifiable from a Liberalist Position? - The Free Software Foundation's Position in Comparison to John Locke's Concept of Property. In: Book of Proceedings of The Sixth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, 143-152, 2003.

Abstract:

This paper offers a new view in how justifiable the current liberalist
view on intellectual property rights (IPR's) in software actually is
if based on Locke's Second Treatise and especially on Chapter 5, 'Of
Property', which has traditionally been seen as the starting point of
liberalist argument for property - be it immaterial or material. In
this paper will be shown how in Locke the possibility of property in the
immaterial is denounced and how that in fact fits the position of the
Free Software Foundation to both patents or copyright in software, GNU
General Public License (GPL) being the main example of this.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpKimppa03a,
  title = {Intellectual Property Rights in Software: Justifiable from a Liberalist Position? - The Free Software Foundation's Position in Comparison to John Locke's Concept of Property},
  booktitle = {Book of Proceedings of The Sixth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference},
  author = {Kimppa, Kai},
  pages = {143-152},
  year = {2003},
  keywords = {Intellectual Property Rights, Locke, Liberalism, Free Software},
}

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