Pluralism, Principles and Proportionality in Intellectual Property†.
This review article offers a European perspective on the pluralistic, principles-based model of intellectual property (IP) advanced by Robert Merges in his book Justifying Intellectual Property. After introducing Merges’s model and theory of IP with reference to IP theories generally, other pluralis...
| Published in: | Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 181 - 201 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2014
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