Breakey Hugh <br/><br/>
Intellectual Liberty: natural rights and intellectual property 

 - New York:  Routledge,  2016. 
 - x,175p. 
<br/><br/> Considering the steady increase in intellectual property rights in the last century, does it make sense to speak of 'user's rights' and can limitations on intellectual liberty be justified from a rights-based perspective? This book philosophically defends the importance of the public domain and user's rights through the use of natural-rights thought. Utilizing primarily the work of John Locke, it contends that considerations of natural justice and human freedom impose powerful constraints on the proper reach and substance of intellectual property rights, especially copyright 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781409447115 (Hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Intellectual property<br/>Fair use (Copyright)<br/>LAW - Business and Financial<br/>LAW - Intellectual Property - General<br/>Principles of justified acquisition and duty imposing powers<br/>Internal restrictions on natural intellectual property rights<br/>User's rights and the public domain<br/>Ethical justification for the right to intellectual liberty<br/>Right to intellectual liberty in law
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>347.77  / BRE