Information, Freedom and Property ─ The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology

Bringing together philosophers of law and philosophers of technology, this book addresses the issues that arise in the tension between freedom of and property in information. Addresses business models, government strategies and legal frameworks concerning the collection, organisation and control of data, the book asks whether it is in the very nature of information to be free. Analysing the various political and ethical implications raised by this question – including, for example, open access, the hacker ethos, the market in information, and so on – this book will be of considerable interest to those working on the contemporary dimensions of freedom of information, data protection, and intellectual property rights.

Mireille Hildenbrandt is Professor of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law at the Institute for Computer and Information Sciences (ICIS) at Radboud University, Nijmegen, and Professor of Technology Law and Law in Technology with the research group for Law Science Technology and Society Studies (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. She is also Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Bibi van den Berg is an associate professor and research director at eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at the Law School of Leiden University. Van