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Fourteen philosophers, economists and legal scholars address the question 'Can intellectual property rights be fair?' What differentiates intellectual from real property? Should libertarians or Rawlsians defend IP rights? What's wrong with free-riding? How can incentives be taken into account by theories of justice?

Is it fair to leave the next generation a public debt? Is it defensible to impose legal rules on them through constitutional constraints? From combating climate change to ensuring proper funding for future pensions, concerns about ethics between generations are everywhere. In this volume sixteen philosophers explore intergenerational justice. Part One examines the ways in which various theories of justice look at the matter. These include libertarian, Rawlsian, sufficientarian, contractarian, communitarian, Marxian and reciprocity-based approaches. In Part Two, the authors look more...

This volume provides the first systematic exploration of intellectual property and theories of justice from a philosophical perspective. The book covers the diversity of relevant theories of justice (Lockean, Rawlsian, etc.) and touches on a wide variety of the practical issues related to intellectual property (access to drugs in the third world, traditional knowledge, open software, peer-to-peer file sharing, etc.).