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Within fisheries and natural resource management literature, there is considerable discussion about the key roles that property rights can play in building biologically and socially sustainable resource management regimes.
Tracy Yandle
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Property Is a Two-Way Street: Personal Copyright Use and Implied Authorization [PDF]
When we use the Internet, we know that copyright law limits our freedom. We know, for example, that downloading popular music is legally risky. Those who want to get moralistic about it argue that illegal downloading violates a property right of the ...
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Are intellectual property rights unfair? [PDF]
Abstract If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in intellectual property rights (IPRs) rather than redistributive transfers.
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Endogenous Property Rights in a Game of Conflict [PDF]
This paper derives the conditions under which property rights can arise in an anarchy equilibrium. The creation of property rights requires that players devote part of their endowment to the public good of property rights protection.
David M. Bruner, John R. Boyce
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Analysis of the relation of copyright and work content in judicial verdicts of USA, UK and Canada
According to copyright system, the normal standard for protecting literary and artistic works is originality hence the international copyright treaties such as Berne convention, while emphasizing on originality are avoiding imposing other mandatory ...
Mahmoud Sadeghi, Sara Allameh
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Ownership and Property Rights Issues in Watershed Resource Management [PDF]
Well-defined property rights recognize the ownership of material and abstract things. The low enforcement of property rights for a certain resource may lead to its abuse. Hence, its application on watershed needs to be understood.
Chiong-Javier, Maria Elena
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The understanding of co-owners' rights in the context of the genesis of environmental rights
Environmental rights obtain a special importance in the context of real distribution of joint property. The common practice, where the building regulations are applied to legal relationships when carrying out the real distribution of a joint property, is
Kudeikina I.
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Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights [PDF]
We study the determinants of patent suits and their outcomes over the period 1978-1999 by linking detailed information from the U.S. patent office, the federal court system, and industry sources.
Jean Olson Lanjouw, Mark Schankerman
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Rights, Property, and Community
Property rights are commonly thought to be absolute and sacrosanct. Utilitarian theorists, such as Locke, have encouraged a further belief that property rights are synonymous with individual liberty. A number of more recent writers have claimed that these rights are moral values independent of the particular (capitalist) structure of society. Moreover,
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Measuring Institutions: Indicators of Political Rights, Property Rights and Political Instability in Malawi [PDF]
This paper aims to construct a new set of institutional indicators for Malawi. Our political freedom index correlates strongly with the Freedom House political rights and civil liberties indices, but consists of a far longer time series, which can be ...
Johannes Fedderke, Julia Garlick
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