This incisive book explores the ways in which the major notions of fairness, morality and ordre public can be used both to justify and to limit intellectual pro

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This book contends that the concept of fairness should be embraced and developed as a middle ground between strictly utilitarian and fundamental rights-based ap

Examining a neglected aspect of international copyright law, this book highlights the obligation on nations to maintain broad copyright exceptions.

In a sophisticated defense of intellectual property, Merges draws on Kant, Locke, and Rawls to explain how IP rights are based on a solid ethical foundation and