Copyright and democracy in Kant and Hegel’s legal philosophy
Abstract
Democratic theories of copyright, in the formulation given by their contemporary advocates, are normatively ambiguous. To solve this issue, an alternative version of these theories, based on the work of Kant and Hegel, is presented. The work has the following structure: (i) the work of three key contemporary advocates of democratic theories is reviewed. Next, (ii) it will be argued that, despite its many strengths, their work suffers from ambiguity in its normative foundations. To solve this problem, (iii) Kant’s and Hegel’s work is addressed with the aim of presenting a non-consequentialist democratic theory of Copyright.Keywords:
Copyright, Kant, Hegel, personality theories, democratic theoriesReferences
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