JSB171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Artificial Scarcity, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Natural Justice
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Generic term for the various rights or bundles of rights which the law accords for the protection of creative effort (mckeogh, stewart & griffith) Organisations: agreement on trade related aspects of intellectual property rights (trips, wipo copyright treaty 1996 (wct, wipo performers and phonograms treaty 1996 (wppt) Commonwealth: external affairs power: gives parliament the power to enact laws reflecting the contents of international. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of many, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature: To encourage the production of ideas: john locke (if you mix labour with land then you deserve reward) Australian tradition in copyright is more explicitly utilitatirn: in the sense of seeking to maximise social welfare, rather than focusing on ip as having intrinsic value and hence merit. Ip is recognised in the us constitution to enable progress.
