Beyond
Intellectual Property:
Matching
Information Protection to Innovation
"Beyond Intellectual Property explores the many means by which information is
protected. Based on thorough empirical research in the US and Europe as well as practical
experience of economic innovation, it goes far beyond the traditional realm of
intellectual property (IP). It also identifies the need for urgent reform of present
arrangements and suggests practical ways of achieving this." "New instruments
for protecting investment in information have been historically important for initiating
long-wave economic cycles. William Kingston argues that although IP has been one such
method, it is increasingly proving ineffective because its laws have been progressively
shaped by the interests that benefit from them, rather than by visions of the public good.
He demonstrates that repair will require such visions, which would also underwrite
radically new forms of information protection." This insightful book defines,
describes and distinguishes between information, knowledge and meaning, and explains why
information now needs changed forms of legal protection if it is to be of genuine economic
value. As such, it will be of great interest to economic policy-makers, students of IP and
innovation, patent agents and attorneys.
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Information, property rights and
innovation 1
2 The most-used information protection
means: capability and marketing 17
3 Protecting disembodied information:
áintellectual property' 42
4 International information protection 65
5 Information protection and visions of the
public good 82
6 How interests came to shape information
protection 100
7 Rescuing a dysfunctional system
125
8 Compulsory arbitration for dispute
resolution 148
9 Better measurement for information
protection 161
10 Protecting the information of smaller
firms 177
11 Direct protection of innovation
205
12 Epilogue: must interests prevail?
230
Index 241
256 pages, Hardcover