Zohar Efroni (Stanford's Center for Internet and Society) has posted Information as Intellectual Property Subject Matter on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
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This paper is a draft chapter from a forthcoming book on copyright law in the digital environment. This chapter (Draft Chapter 1 in the book) addresses the basic question of information as subject matter of IP regulation, especially in the context of copyright law. It develops a conception of information that seeks to descriptively and prescriptively inform the debate over property-like rights in "information" at a rather abstract level that is applicable to numerous questions of regulation, policy and judicial interpretation.