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Protect or plunder? : understanding intellectual property rights / Vandana Shiva.
2001
G 252 SHI.P
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Title
Protect or plunder? : understanding intellectual property rights / Vandana Shiva.
Description
146 pages ; [28] cm.
ISBN
1842771094
1842771086 Hb
9781842771082 Hb
9781842771099 Pb
1552660664 Canada
9781552660669 Canada
0864865147 So. Africa
9780864865144 So. Africa
1842771086 Hb
9781842771082 Hb
9781842771099 Pb
1552660664 Canada
9781552660669 Canada
0864865147 So. Africa
9780864865144 So. Africa
Alternate Call Number
G 252 SHI.P
Summary
The kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms that can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. The author argues that this Western-inspired, unprecedented widening of intellectual property concepts does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of kowledge. Instead, it is being exploited by transnational corporations to increase their profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people and of the age-old knowledge and independence of the world's farmers. Intellectual protection is being transformed into corporate plunder. Little wonder popular feeling runs so high against the WTO that polices this new intellectual order, and the pharmaceutical, biotech and other corporations that benefit from it.
Note
Originally published in India with the title Patents : myths & reality. 2001.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: Patents
An Ethical Crisis
The Role of Patents in History
The Myth of Patents
Threats to Biodiversity
Biopiracy
Can Seed be Owned? Profiteering from Disease
Democracy or Dictatorship?
The Way Forward
Appendix: Patent Laws in India
References.
An Ethical Crisis
The Role of Patents in History
The Myth of Patents
Threats to Biodiversity
Biopiracy
Can Seed be Owned? Profiteering from Disease
Democracy or Dictatorship?
The Way Forward
Appendix: Patent Laws in India
References.
Series
Series
Global Issues Series.
Published
London : Zed Books, 2001.
Language
Danish
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