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On Water Drinkers and Magical Springs: Challenging the L ockean Proviso as a Justification for Copyright
Author(s) -
Lambrecht Maxime
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/raju.12098
Subject(s) - appropriation , intellectual property , law , law and economics , desert (philosophy) , business , political science , sociology , philosophy , epistemology
Does intellectual property satisfy the requirements of the L ockean proviso, that the appropriator leave “enough and as good” or that he at least not “deprive others”? If an author's appropriation of a work he has just created is analogous to a drinker “taking a good draught” in the flow of an inexhaustible river, or to someone magically “causing springs of water to flow in the desert,” how could it not satisfy the L ockean proviso?