TITLE

What is property?

AUTHOR(S)

Bouckaert, Boudewijn

PUB. DATE

June 1990

SOURCE

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy;Summer90, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p775

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Presents a debate on intellectual property rights. Legal notion of property; Importance of legal doctrines in property; Role of ethics and political economy; Origins of the modern concept of property; Assessment of property rights; Incorporating legal concepts to intellectual property.

ACCESSION #

9612244565

Tags: INTELLECTUAL property

 

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