The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property: A Natural Rights Perspective

by Randolph J May

Book Overview

Protection of intellectual property (IP) rights is indispensable to maintaining a vibrant economy, especially in the digital age as creativity and innovation increasingly take intangible forms. Long before the digital age, however, the U.S. Constitution secured the IP rights of authors and inventors to the fruits of their labors. The essays in this book explore the foundational underpinnings of intellectual property that informed the Constitution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611637090
• ISBN13: 9781611637090
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.