ABSTRACT
Students learn to: Describe traditional ethical arguments in favor of the right to own physical property; Identify at least three objections to the application of Locke’s Theory of Property Rights to the notion of intellectual property and three arguments in favor of doing so; Define key terms in the discussion of IP issues – including fair use, economic right, moral right, piracy and intellectual property; Apply the virtue ethics, utilitarian and deontological lens to thinking through the ethical issues of intellectual property; Analyze the issue of establishing norms to protect intellectual property, identifying sources of support for these norms, as well as problems which make achieving consensus difficult.
