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    Theory and Policy of Intellectual Property

    Eric E. Johnson

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    Preliminaries

    The why of intellectual

    property

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    Four baskets for theory/policy arguments:

    • Utilitarianism •  Labor-desert theory •  Personality theory •  Cultural primacy

    Four baskets for theory/policy arguments:

    • Utilitarianism •  Labor-desert theory •  Personality theory •  Cultural primacy

    Based on work by Prof. William Fisher

    Fisher calls this “social planning theory.”

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    Utilitarianism

    Jeremy Bentham

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    “"the greatest happiness of the greatest number ...

    is the measure of right and wrong”

    John Stuart Mill

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    Richard Posner

    Labor-desert theory

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    John Locke

    Personality theory

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    Cultural primacy theory


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