The threefold fictitiousness of intellectual property
- According to the standard account, IPRs allocate objects to owners, just like ownership allocates real property. In this paper, I explain that this simplistic paradigm operates on the basis of three fictions: The first – truly Polanyian – fiction concerns IP subject matter that was originally not produced for sale but created for other purposes, e.g. private pleasure. The second fiction is that IP is treated as a marketable good whereas much IP, in particular works and signs, are embedded in communication. Finally, IP is a fictitious concept in that we speak of works, inventions, and other IP objects as of tangible commodities, where in fact IP objects only exist insofar and because we speak and regulate as if they exist as abstract “goods” of value.
| Author: | Alexander PeukertGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-567664 |
| Parent Title (German): | Arbeitspapier / Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main = Research paper / Faculty of Law, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Nr. 3/2021 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Arbeitspapiere / Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Goethe-Universität = Research paper / Faculty of Law, Goethe University (2021, 3) |
| Publisher: | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2021 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/05/22 |
| Tag: | Karl Polanyi; fiction; intellectual property; ontology |
| Note: | Published in: Niklas Brunn, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Marianne Levin, Ansgar Ohly (eds), Transition and Coherence in Intellectual Property Law Essays in Honour of Annette Kur, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 224-231 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 481518436 |
| Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
