TY - BOOK ID - 78532744 TI - Constructing intellectual property PY - 2012 SN - 1139334336 110722988X 1280394080 9786613572004 1139337769 1139340212 1139341790 1139336894 1139338633 1139035363 9781139338639 1107014611 9781107014619 9781139336895 9781139035361 9781139340212 9781139340212 9781139334334 9781280394089 6613572004 9781139337762 9781139341790 9781107691773 110769177X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Intellectual property KW - Law. KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - IP (Intellectual property) KW - Proprietary rights KW - Rights, Proprietary KW - Intangible property KW - Philosophy. KW - Law and legislation KW - Philosophy KW - E-books KW - Law KW - General and Others KW - Intellectual property - Philosophy KW - Australie KW - Royaume-Uni KW - Etats-Unis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78532744 AB - What is 'intellectual property'? This book examines the way in which this important area of law is constructed by the legal system. It argues that intellectual property is a body of rules, created by the legal system, that regulate the documented forms of abstract objects, which are also defined into existence by the legal system. Intellectual property law thus constructs its own objects of regulation and it does so through the application of a collection of core concepts. By analyzing the metaphysical structure of intellectual property law and the concepts the legal system uses to construct 'intellectual property', the book sheds new light on the nature of this fascinating area of law. It explains anomalies between social and intellectual property uses of concepts such as authorship - here dubbed 'creatorship' - and originality and it helps to explain the role of intellectual property from a structural (rather than the traditional normative) perspective. ER -