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archive 236 disk0/00/00/56/30 2004-11-17 2014-10-02 11:59:44 2012-12-14 18:16:05 journale show Pievatolo Maria Chiara Information as public domain. A philosophical argument against intellectual private property pub EE Kant intellectual property freedom of information Plato The paper presents two arguments against the idea of private intellectual property: 1. a modern argument, derived from a parallel reading of two essays of Kant: "Von der Unrechtmäßigkeit des Büchernachdrucks" and "Über ein vermeintes Recht aus Meschenliebe zu lügen" that should explain why Kant refused to apply the concepts of private property to ideas and speeches 2. an ancient, and more basic argument, from Plato's "Meno" and his idea of anamnesis: research and learning can work – and avoid Meno's paradox – only if it is assumed a previous continuum of a common, contextual and interconnected knowledge 2004 Dipartimento di scienze della politica, universita' di Pisa en FALSE IT- http://hdl.handle.net/10760/5630 public Bollettino Telematico di Filosofia Politica TRUE P. Himanen, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of Information Age, London, Secker and Warburg, 2001, pp. 33-34. Plato, Theaetetus P. Lévy, Cyberculture, Paris, O. Jacob, 1997. M. McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, MIT Press, 1964 V. Shiva, Biopiracy. The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, Foxhole-Dartington Totnes, Green Books, 1997. L. Lessig,The future of ideas. The fate of the commons in a connected world, New York, Random House, 2001, pp. 86-87. T. Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813. B. Constant, Des réactions politiques (1797), in Ecrits et discours politiques, Montreuil, J.J. Pauvert, 1964, pp. 27-85; I. Kant, Über ein vermeintes Recht aus Meschenliebe zu lügen (A 302-303). I. Kant, Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? I. Kant, Über ein vermeintes Recht aus Meschenliebe zu lügen R. Stallman, Reevaluating Copyright: The Public Must Prevail, “Oregon Law Review”, Spring 1996. info:eu-repo/semantics/other