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Robert Hauptman is professor emeritus of St. Cloud State University and editor of the Journal of Information Ethics.

Edited by Robert Hauptman
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 116
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2007
pISBN: 1110010000162
Imprint: McFarland

Editorial: Access Subverted     3

Editorial: Rebuttal to “Access Subverted”     4

COLUMNS

Academics

Peer Review: Three Suggestions in the Spirit of “Mend It, Don’t End It”     6

PsychInfo: Jailhouse Informants     10

Current Issues: GigaBytes, Schmigabytes! Who Needs ’Em?     14

ARTICLES

Introduction to Articles from the Third Annual Information Ethics Roundtable     16

Intellectual Property and Coerced Exchanges     19

Mattlage on Copyright Relinquishment     31

Toward an Epistemology of Intellectual Property     34

Comment on “Toward an Epistemology of Intellectual Property”     52

The Controversy over Authorship in Medical Journals     55

Comments on Herrera’s “The Controversy over Authorship in Medical Journals”     71

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES

The Ethics of Pseudonymous Publication     75

Creationism: Religion or Materialism     90

The Ethics of Marketing Faith-Based Commodities     98

Reviews     105

Web Briefs     112

Article Alerts     115

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