When first written into the Constitution, intellectual property aimed to facilitate ‘progress of science and the useful arts’ by granting rights to authors and inventors. Today, when rapid technological evolution accompanies growing wealth inequality and political and social divisiveness, the constitutional goal of ‘progress’ may pertain to more basic, human values, redirecting IP’s emphasis to the commonweal instead of private interests. Against Progress considers contemporary ...
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Introduction: Is Progress More?
1. Everyone’s a Photographer Now: The Case of Digital Photography
2. Equality
3. Privacy
4. Distributive Justice (or ‘Faire...
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Jessica Silbey is Professor of Law at the Boston University School of Law. She is the author of
The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Pro...
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