University of Washington

Information School

BRIEF BIO

Adam D. Moore Ph.D. an Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, examines the ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding intellectual property, privacy, freedom of speech, accountability, and information control. He is the author of 2 books, 3 edited anthologies, and over 35 articles.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books     

Articles (* peer reviewed) ....See http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=202561

1. "Intellectual Property and the Prisoner's Dilemma: A Game Theory Justification of Copyrights, Patents, and Trade Secrets," under review/forthcoming) 2017.  PDF
   
   
2. “Privacy, Neuroscience, and Neuro-Surveillance,” ” in Res Publica, “Neuroscience and Brain Privacy,” Vol. 23, No. 2 (May 2017), p. 159-177.*  PDF
   
   
3. “Waiving Privacy Rights: Responsibility, Paternalism, and Liberty,” (under review/forthcoming) 2017.  PDF
   
   
4. “Privacy, Speech, and Values: What we have No Business Knowing,” Journal of Ethics and Information Technology, Vol. 18, Issue 1, (March 2016), p. 41.*  PDF
   
   
5. “Lockean Foundations of Intellectual Property,” WIPO Journal Special Issue, Vol. 7 (2015): 29-40. 
   
   
6. “The Value of Privacy, Security, and Accountability,” with Mike Katell.  In Privacy, Security, and Accountability. Edited by A. Moore (Rowman & Littlefield International, Dec. 2015), p. 1-17.  PDF
   
   
7. “Why Privacy and Accountability Trump Security,” forthcoming in Privacy, Security, and Accountability. Edited by A. Moore (Rowman & Littlefield International, Dec. 2015), p. 171-181.  PDF
   
   
8. “Privacy in the Family,” with Newell, B., Metoyer, C.  In The Social Dimensions of Privacy, Cambridge University Press, 2015. Beate Roessler and Dorota Mokrosinska eds. forthcoming (2015), p. 104-121.*  PDF
   
   
9. “Intellectual Property and Copyright,” The Book: A Global History, edited by Henry Woudhuysen and Michael F. Suarez (2014), p. 183-197.  PDF
   
   
10. “Coercing Privacy and Moderate Paternalism: Allen on Unpopular Privacy,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter in Philosophy and Law, Vol. 13 (Fall 2013): 9-14.  PDF
    
    
11.  “Privacy, Speech, and the Law.” Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 22 (spring 2013): 21-43.*  PDF
    
    
12.  “Privacy.” The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette. (Winter 2013), 1-11.  PDF
    
    
13. “A Lockean Theory of Intellectual Property Revisited.”  San Diego Law Review, Vol. 50 (Fall 2012): 1070-1103.*  PDF
    
    
14. “Drug Testing and Privacy in the Workplace,” The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law, Vol. 29 (Summer 2012): 463-492.  PDF
    
    
15.  “Privacy, Security, and Government Surveillance: WikiLeaks and the New Accountability,” Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 25 (April 2011): 141-156.*  PDF
    --Reprinted in Social and Personal Ethics, 8th Edition, William H. Shaw ed. (Cengage Learning Pub. 2014), Cha 12.
    --Reprinted in Ashgate Library of Essays on Legal Ethics and the Enforcement of Law, forthcoming
    
    
16.  “Intellectual Property.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2011. PDF.   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intellectual-property/
    
    
17. “Privacy, Public Health, and Controlling Medical Information,” HealthCare Ethics Committee (HEC Forum), Vol. 23 (Dec., 2010): 225-240.*  PDF
    
    
18. “Defining Privacy,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol.39 (fall, 2008): 411-428.*  PDF
    
    
19. “Personality-Based, Rule-Utilitarian, and Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property,” in Information and Computer Ethics, edited by H. Tavani and K. Himma (John Wiley & Sons, 2008), p. 105-130.  PDF
    
    
20. “Toward Informational Privacy Rights.”  San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44 (Spring 2007): 809-845.*  PDF
    
    
21.  “Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Hacking: Evaluating Free Access Arguments,” in Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking, and Society, Ken Himma Ed. (Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2007), p. 235-254.  PDF
    
    
22. “Privacy,” with Randal Kemp. Library Hi Tech: Special Issue on Information Ethics, Library Hi Tech, Vol. 25 (2007): 58-78 (primary author).*  PDF
    
    
23.  “Intellectual Property, Genetic Information, and Gene Enhancement Techniques,” in Ethics, Computing, and Genomics: Moral Controversies in Computational Genomics edited by Herman Tavani (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2005), p. 282-305.
    
    
24. “Information Ethics: An Introduction" with Kristene Unsworth.  Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power edited by A. Moore (University of Washington Press, 2005), p. 11-28.  PDF
    
    
25. "Privacy, Liberty, and the Genetic Modification of Humans.”  Journal of Philosophical Research, Special Supplement: Ethical Issues for the Twenty-First Century, Frederick R Adams ed., (Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center Press, 2005): 81-95.*
    
    
26. “Intellectual Property, Privilege, and Natural Rights.” A new introduction to the paperback edition of Intellectual Property and Information Control: Philosophic Foundations and Contemporary Issues (Transaction Publishing/Rutgers University, Fall 2004), p. xi-xvii.  PDF
    
    
27. “Values, Objectivity, and Relationalism.” The Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 38 (Fall 2004): 75-90.*  PDF
    
    
28. “Privacy: Its Meaning and Value.”  American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 40 (Fall 2003): 215-227.*  PDF
    
    
29. “Intellectual Property: Theory, Privilege, and Pragmatism.”  The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol.16 (Fall 2003): 191-216. *  PDF
    
    
30. “Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Social Progress: The Case against Incentives Based Arguments.” The Hamline Law Review, Vol. 26 (2003): 602-630.  PDF
       --Reprinted in The Andean Yearbook of Intellectual Rights, Nº 4, 1011.
    
    
31. "Owning Genetic Information and Gene Enhancement Techniques: Why Privacy and Property May Undermine Social Control of the Human Genome.”  Bioethics, Vol. 14  (Spring 2000): 97-119.*  PDF
    
    
32. “Employee Monitoring & Computer Technology: Evaluative Surveillance v. Privacy." Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 10 (July 2000): 697-709.  Reprinted in Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power.  Ed. A. Moore (University of Washington Press, 2005), p. 251-264.*  PDF
    
    
33. "Privacy and the Encryption Debate."  Knowledge, Technology, and Policy, Vol. 12 (Winter 2000): 72-84.*  PDF
    
    
34. "Intangible Property: Privacy, Power, and Information Control," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 35 (October, 1998): 365-378. *  PDF
       --Reprinted in Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power.  Ed. A. Moore (University of Washington Press, 2005), p. 172-190
    
    
35. "A Lockean Theory of Intellectual Property." The Hamline Law Review, Vol. 21 (January, 1998): 65-108.  PDF
    
    
36. "Property and Information Control." The Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association (January, 1998): 109-122.*
    
    
37. "Introduction To Intellectual Property." in Intellectual Property: Moral Legal, and International Dilemmas,  Ed. A. Moore (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), p. 1-14.  PDF
    
    
38. "Toward A Lockean Theory of Intellectual Property." in Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas, Ed. A. Moore (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), p. 81-103.  PDF
    

Recent and Forthcoming Presentations

1. "Philosophical Foundations of Intellectual Property," Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) Summer Workshop (July 15-20, 2017).
   
   
2. "A Comment on Copyright Duration and Drassinower's Speech-Act Theory of Copyright," Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) research symposium on philosophical approaches to intellectual property (May 17-20, 2017).
   
   
3. “Investment, Values, and Lives: A New Lockean Justification for Intellectual Property,” Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) research symposium on philosophical approaches to intellectual property, Jekyll Island (May 19-20, 2016).
   
   
4. “Why Privacy and Accountability Trump Security,” presented at the Amsterdam Privacy Conference, Netherlands, October 23-26, 2015.
   
   
5. “The Ethics of Police use of Body Worn Cameras: Testimony and Questions,” Washington State House of Representatives Judiciary Committee (Laurie Jinkins, chair). Judiciary Committee reconsiders two proposals (HB 1910, HB 1917), September 29th 2015 from 10:00-12:00.
   
   
6. “Waiving Privacy Rights: Responsibility, Paternalism, and Liberty,” presented at the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition, Penn Law, conference entitled “Taking Responsibility for One’s Own Data Privacy and Security,” April 24th, 2015.
   
   
7. “Privacy, Security, and Government Surveillance: WikiLeaks, Big Data, and the ‘New Accountability,’” presented at the Social Justice in the Information Society speaker series, University of Scranton, November 10th, 2014.
   
   
8. “Privacy, Trust, and Accountability,” Keynote Panel, ASIS&T Conference workshop “Trust in the Age of Data (Big and Small), October 31, 2014.
   
   

(last updated 05/15/2017)