intellectual property.

In this assignment, you are to write arguments both for and against the concept of intellectual property based on ethical considerations. Your presentation should have five sections: Section 1: your introduction, Section 2: an argument for the concept of intellectual property based on normative ethical principles from whatever school or schools you would like to use, Section 3: a similar type of argument against the concept of intellectual property, Section 4: your conclusion, which should include your personal stance, and Section 5: your references, which should include all five of the ones listed later in this assignment. For your arguments and your conclusion, you can mix whatever systems you like, but please be careful to name a system whenever you reference one. In particular, it is more challenging to make strong non-consequentialist arguments for the creation of the idea of intellectual property. If you are looking for a challenge with this assignment, I believe that this would be an interesting area to explore — look closely at the von Gunten piece (source 5) and the Harvard Bridge group piece (source 2) in the source list. Both list traditional non-consequentialist arguments for intellectual property, and also give refutations to some of these arguments. Sections 1 through 4 should each have sufficient material to adequately cover the area. As guidelines, your introduction should have at least three paragraphs (statement of the problem, summary of arguments for, and a summary of arguments against). Your arguments for should have a minimum of five paragraphs (statement of what normative basis or bases that you plan to use, three paragraphs of argument, and summary of the ethical analysis.) Your arguments against likewise should have at least five paragraphs. Your conclusion should be comprehensive, and it does need to include your own stance (though of course this can be a nuanced position since this a very broad topic and it has a vast number of aspects, both legal and ethical.) Please read and refer to the following works: Intellectual Property (a very complete article from Stanford’s Plato site, with a significant amount of background material) Philosophic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Harvard’s Bridge group Ideas Are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property, by Kinsella (a bit lighter than the first two) The Case Against Intellectual Property, Boldrin and Levine (note that this link is to JSTOR, and you will likely need to use a campus network address to access this; one solution might be to try the FSU Library link https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3083403 while you are logged into my.fsu.edu) Intellectual Property is Common Property, von Gunten (the link should take you to the introduction, from where you should be able to read the text) This list is not exclusive, and you are welcome to use whatever additional resources that you would like (in particular, you may well want to consider using the week 5 resources on intellectual property), but please be careful to cite other people’s work and delineate it from your own thoughts. You may choose your favorite style for citations; I happen to prefer the default bibtex settings, but MLA, APA, or any other reasonably standard format is fine. This will be graded on a 100 point basis. The rubric: Up to -100 points off for poor or unacceptable English. Up to -100 points off for nonsensical material. Up to -25 points each for leaving out any of sections 1 through 4, and a graduated scale for failing to be reasonably comprehensive in a section’s material. Up to -100 points off for leaving out section 5, and a graduated scale for failing to include all of your sources. (The good news is that there is a lower cap of 0 for the lowest possible score, so failing to turn in a paper is only a 0 rather than -300). (If you feel like you need a minimum word count, 3000 words of main body text is a safe minimum (obviously this would not include your references section or any other framework materials, such as if you were to provide a table of contents.)) links for sources/ references: https://cyber.harvard.edu/bridge/Philosophy/ipphil.htm https://mises.org/library/ideas-are-free-case-against-intellectual-property https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intellectual-property/ https://onlinebooks.io/intellectual-property-is-common-property/introduction/ you can use other sources as well but these are the ones given