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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?

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