Intellectual property rights, moral imagination, and access to life-enhancing drugs

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作者
Werhane, PH [1 ]
Gorman, M
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[1] Depaul Univ, Dept Philosophy, Chicago, IL 60604 USA
[2] Depaul Univ, Inst Business & Profess Eth, Chicago, IL 60604 USA
[3] Univ Virginia, Olsson Ctr Appl Eth, Darden Sch, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA
[4] Univ Virginia, Dept Sci Technol & Soc, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA
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10.5840/beq200515441
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Although the idea of intellectual property (IP) rights-proprietary rights to what one invents, writes, paints, composes or creates-is firmly embedded in Western thinking, these rights are now being challenged across the globe in a number of areas. This paper will focus on one of these challenges: government-sanctioned copying of patented drugs without permission or license of the patent owner in the name of national security, in health emergencies, or life-threatening epidemics. After discussing standard rights-based and utilitarian arguments defending intellectual property we will present another model. IP is almost always a result of a long history of scientific or technological development and numbers of networks of creativity, not the act of a single person or a group of people at one moment in time. Thus thinking about and evaluating IP requires thinking about IP as shared rights. A network approach to IP challenges a traditional model of IP it follows that the owner of those rights has some obligations to share that information or its outcomes. if that conclusion is applied to the distribution of antiretroviral drugs, what pharmaceutical companies are ethically required to do to increase access to these medicines in the developing world will have to be reanalyzed from a more systemic perspective.
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