Justifying intellectual property protection: Why the interests of content creators usually win over everyone else's

Information Technology and Social Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 47-68

  Himma, Kenneth Einar ^a  

^a SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-968-7.ch003     Document Type: Chapter

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