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  1. Pledging Patent Rights for Fighting Against the COVID-19: From the Ethical and Efficiency Perspective.Xiaodong Yuan & Xiaotao Li - 2022 - Journal of Business Ethics 179 (3):683-696.
    In response to the great crises of the COVID-19 coronavirus, virtually all new technologies protected by patent rights have been used in practice from diagnostics, therapeutic, medical equipment, and vaccine to prevention, tracking, and containment of COVID-19. However, the moral justification of patent rights is questioned when pharmaceutical patents conflict with public health. This paper proposes a revised approach of deciding on how to address the conflicts between business ethics and patent protections and then compares the different mechanisms of clearing (...)
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  • Are intellectual property rights compatible with Rawlsian principles of justice?Darryl J. Murphy - 2012 - Ethics and Information Technology 14 (2):109-121.
    This paper argues that intellectual property rights are incompatible with Rawls’s principles of justice. This conclusion is based upon an analysis of the social stratification that emerges as a result of the patent mechanism which defines a marginalized group and ensure that its members remain alienated from the rights, benefits, and freedoms afforded by the patent product. This stratification is further complicated, so I argue, by the copyright mechanism that restricts and redistributes those rights already distributed by means of the (...)
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  • New Values for New Challenges: The Emergence of Progressive Commons as a Property Regime for the 21st Century.Nina Gmeiner, Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach & Christian Becker - 2021 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 24 (2):187-207.
    Property regimes are based on fundamental values of the society or group that designs and reproduces them. This paper analyses the ethical underpinnings of Progressive Commons in comparison to the values underlying private property and traditional Commons. Against this backdrop, we discuss the potential of Progressive Commons to address major challenges in context of the twenty-first century economy. Seed Commons serve as an example. Our analysis shows that Progressive Commons respond to contemporary societal and environmental challenges by re-interpreting the classical (...)
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