1. Autonomy, social selves and intellectual property claims; 2. Corrective justice and intellectual property rights in traditional knowledge; 3. Designing a successor to the patent as second best solution to the problem of optimum provision of good ideas; 4. Ethical issues surrounding intellectual property rights; 5. On the value of the intellectual commons; 6. Immorality and patents: the exclusion of inventions contrary to ordre public and morality; 7. ' The genetic code is 3.6 billion years old: it's time for a rewrite' - questioning the metaphors and analogies of synthetic biology and life science patenting; 8. Copyright infringement as compelled speech; 9. Public reason. communication and intellectual property; 10. Illegal downloading, free riding and justice; 11. The virtuous p(eer): reflections on the ethics of file sharing.