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Beyond Intellectual Property : Matching Information Protection to Innovation.
2010
F 630 KIN.B
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Title
Beyond Intellectual Property : Matching Information Protection to Innovation.
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256 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781848449923 Print
9781781000762 eBook
9781781000762 eBook
Alternate Call Number
F 630 KIN.B
Summary
Beyond Intellectual Property explores the many means by which information is protected. Based on thorough empirical research in the US and Europe as well as practical experience of economic innovation, it goes far beyond the traditional realm of intellectual property (IP). It also identifies the need for urgent reform of present arrangements and suggests practical ways of achieving this. New instruments for protecting investment in information have been historically important for initiating long-wave economic cycles. William Kingston argues that although IP has been one such method, it is increasingly proving ineffective because its laws have been progressively shaped by the interests that benefit from them, rather than by visions of the public good. He demonstrates that repair will require such visions, which would also underwrite radically new forms of information protection. This insightful book defines, describes and distinguishes between information, knowledge and meaning, and explains why information now needs changed forms of legal protection if it is to be of genuine economic value. As such, it will be of great interest to economic policy-makers, students of IP and innovation, patent agents and attorneys.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Preface
1. Information, Property Rights and Innovation
2. The Most-used Information Protection Means: Capability and Marketing
3. Protecting Disembodied Information: ‘Intellectual Property’
4. International Information Protection
5. Information Protection and Visions of the Public Good
6. How Interests Came to Shape Information Protection
7. Rescuing a Dysfunctional System
8. Compulsory Arbitration for Dispute Resolution
9. Better Measurement for Information Protection
10. Protecting the Information of Smaller Firms
11. Direct Protection of Innovation
12. Epilogue: Must Interests Prevail?
Index
1. Information, Property Rights and Innovation
2. The Most-used Information Protection Means: Capability and Marketing
3. Protecting Disembodied Information: ‘Intellectual Property’
4. International Information Protection
5. Information Protection and Visions of the Public Good
6. How Interests Came to Shape Information Protection
7. Rescuing a Dysfunctional System
8. Compulsory Arbitration for Dispute Resolution
9. Better Measurement for Information Protection
10. Protecting the Information of Smaller Firms
11. Direct Protection of Innovation
12. Epilogue: Must Interests Prevail?
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Published
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, 2010.
Language
English
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