Social-philosophic view of the Intellectual Property institution: contemporary features, main problems & development prospects

Abstract

The article is devoted to philosophical explication of the nature and content of contemporary Intellectual Property (IP) conception, its features, main contradictions and possible ways of their smoothing or even resolving in the context of post-industrial information-dependent society. There was made an attempt of systematic presentation of controversial aspects inside the existing models of intellectual property relations. Some of those contradictions treated as a driving force of development in the intellectual sphere. There were traced some significant episodes in cultural genesis of Intellectual Property institution, its ontological foundation, possible social-philosophic typology for the intellectual property, its justificatory problems in the open society. An important question for this research is reconsidering of the ethical and informational aspects of IP nature, the meaning of lobbying phenomenon, a correlation between knowledge and innovations, and the growing influence of NBIC-convergence. In conclusion it was made an emphasis on the strategic role of the Intellectual Property institution in human progress. It's supposed that the future positive dynamics of the IP institution's development is connected with global liberalization of intellectual property law, in complex with other essential measures appropriate to their time.