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  title info:
    title: Intellectual property and immorality
    sub title: against protecting harmful creations of the mind
  name:
    name part: Snow, Ned
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "This book argues that certain intellectual creations should not receive copyright or patent protection because they are harmful to society. It posits that the theories of intellectual property and the Intellectual Property Clause of the U.S. Constitution suggest this conclusion. The book responds to counterarguments: namely, that denying protection might increase the output of objectionable works, that other laws should address the moral problems; and that intellectual property functions better under a laissez-faire approach. After responding to these arguments, the book considers the roles of government actors in denying protection. It argues that courts should exercise their powers of equity to deny relief for works that are connected to unlawful acts of the rights-holder, and that courts should exercise their constitutional powers to deny protection for specific categories of harmful expressions and inventions. Next, the book considers whether Congress has constitutional authority to deny protection for works that it considers to be immoral. In concluding that Congress does have such authority, the book sets forth specific criteria that Congress should apply in exercising its moral discretion. Finally, the book considers whether denying intellectual property protection on moral grounds would violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. It concludes that principles of free speech afford Congress considerable discretion to deny patent protection but only narrow discretion to deny copyright protection. It also concludes that the Free Speech Clause is consistent with judicial denial of protection for the limited categories of works that fall outside the Intellectual Property Clause"--
  table of contents: Introduction -- Moral limitations in IP theory -- Arguments against denying protection -- The problem of judicial moral discretion -- Works involving unlawful conduct -- Judicial history on unlawful works -- The progress provision as a limitation -- Progress, science, and useful arts -- Legislating morality -- Free speech -- Tying it all together.
  note: Ned Snow.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Intellectual property
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Freedom of expression
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Propriété intellectuelle
    topic: Aspect moral
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Liberté d'expression
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Freedom of expression
  subject:
    topic: Intellectual property
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: KF2979 .S658 2022
  classification: 346.7304/8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Intellectual property and immorality
    name:
      name part: Snow, Ned.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021
    identifier: (DLC) 2021031260
  identifier: 9780197614433
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  identifier: 0197614418
  identifier: 0197614426
  identifier: 9780197614426
  identifier: 9780197614402
  identifier: 2021031261
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210624
    record change date: 20260319184718.5
    record identifier: in00005720898
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng