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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Damstedt, Benjamin G.

Titel

Limiting Locke: A Natural Law Justification for the Fair Use Doctrine

Ist Teil von

• The Yale law journal, 2003-03, Vol.112 (5), p.1179-1221

Ort / Verlag

New Haven: The Yale Law Journal Company

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

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Quelle

Nexis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• John Locke's Two Treatises of Government has an uncommon place in American intellectual property theory; Locke's perspective has been particularly appealing because of its ability to justify widely varying property systems. This Note takes a different direction than previous scholarship by focusing on one of Locke's natural law principles, the waste prohibition. It first introduces general Lockean concepts, focusing on impacts of the nonrivalry of intangible goods on the common, and the waste prohibition. It then applies Lockean concepts in an economic framework, demonstrating a fair use right in a Lockean state of nature. Next it considers the transition of society into a civil government, with attendant changes in the scope of property rights in intangibles. It applies the Lockean analysis to two areas of current intellectual property debate - anticircumvention provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the enforcement of drug patents in developing countries.