On Owning Information: Intellectual Property and the Restitutionary Impulse

Abstract

Every day someone invests time, labor, or money in creating a valuable intangible. Someone collects information, creates an idea, designs a boat hull, writes a book, or comes up with a new way to market a product that someone else developed. Judicial treatment of these and other cognate occurrences has shifted dramatically in recent years. Please see the complete abstract in the article.