A Lockean theory of intellectual property
Adam D. Moore (Author)
It is commonly assumed that intellectual works can be owned in much the same way as cars, computers, and VCRs. A basic rule of copyright and patent law is that while ideas themselves cannot be owned, the physical or tangible expressions of them can. Ideas, as well as natural laws and the like, are considered to be the collective property of humanity
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1997
Ohio State University, [Columbus], 1997