TY  - BOOK
AU  - Breakey Hugh
TI  - Intellectual Liberty: natural rights and intellectual property
SN  - 9781409447115 (Hardback)
U1  - 347.77 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Fair use (Copyright)
KW  - LAW - Business and Financial
KW  - LAW - Intellectual Property - General
KW  - Principles of justified acquisition and duty imposing powers
KW  - Internal restrictions on natural intellectual property rights
KW  - User's rights and the public domain
KW  - Ethical justification for the right to intellectual liberty
KW  - Right to intellectual liberty in law
N2  - 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
ER  -