With the proliferation of computer software and media, controversies have arisen around copyright and patent law. This book is based on the idea that the cyberworld encompasses all computer-mediated phenomena. Koepsell proposes intellectual property protection to cope with the complexities of the virtual world, and argues that the subjects of patents and copyrights are essentially the same they are all manmade, intentionally produced objects, and all expressions” of some kind.
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About the Author:
David R. Koepsell is Executive Director of the Center for Applied Ontology and adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at SUNY Buffalo.
Review:
An exciting book on the frontiers of both metaphysics and intellectual property law. -- Peter Hare, Editor of Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society
David Koepsell is one of the few people to examine critically the ontological assumptions that underlie our conception of cyberspace... -- James Moor, Dartmouth University
The most philosophically sophisticated treatment of intellectual property issues in the literature. -- Dennis Patterson, Rutgers University
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- PublisherOpen Court
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0812694236
- ISBN 13 9780812694239
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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