Title Session 2 - Theories of IP.pdf ✅

Locke’s labour theory Hegel’s personality theory Bentham & Mill’s utilitarianism
Justification for property • Chapter V - Second Treatise of Government, 1689 • Goods held in ‘common’ through grant from God • Individual exerts labour and converts them to private property • Proviso -enough left for others • Public domain
Justification for property • Philosophy of Right, 1820 • Property provides a means for self actualisation –for personal expression, dignity, recognition • ‘to achieve proper self- development—to be a person—an individual needs some control over resources in the external environment. • Will – extension of will is personality • Moral rights • Criticism – derivative works / multiple authors