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The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights. volume I, II, III.
2010
F 630 MAY.P
Available at WIPO Library
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The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights. volume I, II, III.
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xiv, 617 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781848440746 Print
9781785362118 eBook
9781785362118 eBook
Alternate Call Number
F 630 MAY.P
Summary
Christopher May – a leading authority in the field – has selected material that provides important insights on the global governance of intellectual property. His collection ranges across a number of disciplines and political perspectives to establish that the political economic analysis of intellectual property is both multifaceted and contested. Professor May has also provided an introduction that will serve as an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the main issues under discussion. This three-volume set will be an invaluable reference source both for those seeking an in-depth understanding of the main issues in this important field and for established scholars wishing to develop their analysis in new directions.
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An Elgar research collection.
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Volume I:
Acknowledgements
Introduction Political Economy and Intellectual Property Rights Christopher May
Part I: Intellectual Property: Narratives, Justifications, Problems
1. A Pluralistic Account of Intellectual Property; 2. Justifying Intellectual Property; 3. The Philosophy of Intellectual Property; 4. Ex Ante versus Ex Post Justifications for Intellectual Property; 5. The Nature of the International Intellectual Property System: Universal Norms and Values or Western Chauvinism?; 6. The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: A Gender Perspective; 7. Software and Shovels: How the Intellectual Property Revolution is Undermining Traditional Concepts of Property
Part II: Histories Of Intellectual Property
8. The Hypocrisy of Forgetfulness: The Contemporary Significance of Early Innovations in Intellectual Property; 9. Intellectual Property and Public Policy in Historical Perspective: Contestation and Settlement; 10. Of Monks, Medieval Scribes and Middlemen; 11. One Hundred Years of Solicitude: Intellectual Property Law 1900–2000; 12. Harmonisation or Differentiation in Intellectual Property Protection? The Lessons of History
Part III: Enclosure and the Information Commons
13. Tragedy of the Information Commons; 14. The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain; 15. Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research; 16. Diamond v. Chakrabarty and Beyond: The Political Economy of Patenting Life; 17. Exclusion, Inclusion, and Enclosure: Historical Commons and Modern Intellectual Property; 18. Enclosure Without and Within the “Information Commons”
Part IV: Intellectual Property and Economics
19. The Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property Law; 20. Cruel, Mean, or Lavish? Economic Analysis, Price Discrimination and Digital Intellectual Property; 21. How Trade-Related are Intellectual Property Rights?; 22. Elementary and Persistent Errors in the Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property’
Volume II:
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: The World Trade Organisation and the TRIPS Agreement
1. Global Property Rights in Information: The Story of TRIPS at the GATT; 2. TRIPS and the Dynamics of Intellectual Property Lawmaking; 3. Regime Shifting: The TRIPs Agreement and New Dynamics of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking; 4. Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS): Objectives, Approaches and Basic Principles of the GATT and of Intellectual Property Conventions; 5. Regulatory Standards in the WTO: Comparing Intellectual Property Rights with Competiton Policy, Environmental Protection, and Core Labor Standards; 6. Legitimacy and the TRIPS Agreement; 7. Public Welfare and the Role of the WTO: Reconsidering the TRIPs Agreement; 8. TRIPS – Natural Rights and a “Polite Form of Economic Imperialism”
Part II: Trips, Aids And Access To Affordable Medicines
9. The Global Politics of Intellectual Property Rights and Pharmaceutical Drug Policies in Developing Countries; 10. The Political Economy of the South Africa-United States Patent Dispute; 11. The TRIPS Agreement, Access to Medicines, and the WTO Doha Ministerial Conference; 12. Popping Patented Pills: Europe and a Decade's Dose of TRIPs; 13. TRIPs Flexibilities and Access to Medicines in Developing Countries: The Problem with Technical Assistance and Free Trade Agreements; 14. The Political Economy of AIDS Treatment: Intellectual Property and the Transformation of Generic Supply
Part III: Peculiarities of Copyright
15. Copyright in a Frictionless World: Towards a Rhetoric of Responsibility; 16. Copyright, Property, and the Right to Deny; 17. Do We Have a Right to Speak with Another's Language? Eldred and the Duration of Copyright; 18. Copyright Law's Theory of the Consumer; 19. Copyright as Myth
Volume III:
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: Technology and Intellectual Property
1. The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection: The Case of Software; 2. Intellectual Property Rights in Digital Media: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Protection, Technological Measures and New Business Models Under EU and US Law; 3. Bridging the Digital Divide: New Route to Development or New Form of Dependency?; 4. Knowledge, Property and the System Dynamics of Technological Change; 5. Commodity Relations and the Forces of Production: The Theft and Defence of Intellectual Property
Part II: The Right To Develop? Developing Countries VS. Intellectual Property; 6. Intellectual Property Rights, Technology and Economic Development: Experiences of Asian Countries; 7. Thinking Strategically About Intellectual Property Rights; 8. The Myth of Development, the Progress of Rights: Human Rights to Intellectual Property and Development; 9. Patent Rights and Human Rights: Exploring their Relationships; 10. The Moral Legitimacy of Intellectual Property Claims: American Business and Developing Country Perspectives; 11. Changing WIPO's Ways? The 2004 Development Agenda in Historical Perspective
Part III: Normative (Re)Production: Socialisation, Lobbying And Technical Assistance
12. Intellectual Property Rights and the Culture of Global Liberalism; 13. The Origins of a Trade-Based Approach to Intellectual Property Protection: The Role of Industry Associations; 14. Intellectual Property, Corporate Strategy, Globalisation: TRIPS in Context; 15. International Disputes Over Intellectual Property; 16. Capacity Building and the (Re)Production of Intellectual Property Rights; 17. Bilateral Technical Assistance and TRIPS: The United States, Japan and the European Communities in Comparative Perspective; 18. The World Intellectual Property Organization: Past, Present and Future
Part IV: Intellectual Property: Critique Or Abolition?
19. A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?; 20. Information as Gift and Commodity; 21. Whose Molecule is it Anyway? Private and Social Perspectives on Intellectual Property; 22. Against Intellectual Property; 23. A Rights-free World – Is it Workable, and What is the Point?
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction Political Economy and Intellectual Property Rights Christopher May
Part I: Intellectual Property: Narratives, Justifications, Problems
1. A Pluralistic Account of Intellectual Property; 2. Justifying Intellectual Property; 3. The Philosophy of Intellectual Property; 4. Ex Ante versus Ex Post Justifications for Intellectual Property; 5. The Nature of the International Intellectual Property System: Universal Norms and Values or Western Chauvinism?; 6. The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: A Gender Perspective; 7. Software and Shovels: How the Intellectual Property Revolution is Undermining Traditional Concepts of Property
Part II: Histories Of Intellectual Property
8. The Hypocrisy of Forgetfulness: The Contemporary Significance of Early Innovations in Intellectual Property; 9. Intellectual Property and Public Policy in Historical Perspective: Contestation and Settlement; 10. Of Monks, Medieval Scribes and Middlemen; 11. One Hundred Years of Solicitude: Intellectual Property Law 1900–2000; 12. Harmonisation or Differentiation in Intellectual Property Protection? The Lessons of History
Part III: Enclosure and the Information Commons
13. Tragedy of the Information Commons; 14. The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain; 15. Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research; 16. Diamond v. Chakrabarty and Beyond: The Political Economy of Patenting Life; 17. Exclusion, Inclusion, and Enclosure: Historical Commons and Modern Intellectual Property; 18. Enclosure Without and Within the “Information Commons”
Part IV: Intellectual Property and Economics
19. The Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property Law; 20. Cruel, Mean, or Lavish? Economic Analysis, Price Discrimination and Digital Intellectual Property; 21. How Trade-Related are Intellectual Property Rights?; 22. Elementary and Persistent Errors in the Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property’
Volume II:
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: The World Trade Organisation and the TRIPS Agreement
1. Global Property Rights in Information: The Story of TRIPS at the GATT; 2. TRIPS and the Dynamics of Intellectual Property Lawmaking; 3. Regime Shifting: The TRIPs Agreement and New Dynamics of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking; 4. Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS): Objectives, Approaches and Basic Principles of the GATT and of Intellectual Property Conventions; 5. Regulatory Standards in the WTO: Comparing Intellectual Property Rights with Competiton Policy, Environmental Protection, and Core Labor Standards; 6. Legitimacy and the TRIPS Agreement; 7. Public Welfare and the Role of the WTO: Reconsidering the TRIPs Agreement; 8. TRIPS – Natural Rights and a “Polite Form of Economic Imperialism”
Part II: Trips, Aids And Access To Affordable Medicines
9. The Global Politics of Intellectual Property Rights and Pharmaceutical Drug Policies in Developing Countries; 10. The Political Economy of the South Africa-United States Patent Dispute; 11. The TRIPS Agreement, Access to Medicines, and the WTO Doha Ministerial Conference; 12. Popping Patented Pills: Europe and a Decade's Dose of TRIPs; 13. TRIPs Flexibilities and Access to Medicines in Developing Countries: The Problem with Technical Assistance and Free Trade Agreements; 14. The Political Economy of AIDS Treatment: Intellectual Property and the Transformation of Generic Supply
Part III: Peculiarities of Copyright
15. Copyright in a Frictionless World: Towards a Rhetoric of Responsibility; 16. Copyright, Property, and the Right to Deny; 17. Do We Have a Right to Speak with Another's Language? Eldred and the Duration of Copyright; 18. Copyright Law's Theory of the Consumer; 19. Copyright as Myth
Volume III:
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: Technology and Intellectual Property
1. The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection: The Case of Software; 2. Intellectual Property Rights in Digital Media: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Protection, Technological Measures and New Business Models Under EU and US Law; 3. Bridging the Digital Divide: New Route to Development or New Form of Dependency?; 4. Knowledge, Property and the System Dynamics of Technological Change; 5. Commodity Relations and the Forces of Production: The Theft and Defence of Intellectual Property
Part II: The Right To Develop? Developing Countries VS. Intellectual Property; 6. Intellectual Property Rights, Technology and Economic Development: Experiences of Asian Countries; 7. Thinking Strategically About Intellectual Property Rights; 8. The Myth of Development, the Progress of Rights: Human Rights to Intellectual Property and Development; 9. Patent Rights and Human Rights: Exploring their Relationships; 10. The Moral Legitimacy of Intellectual Property Claims: American Business and Developing Country Perspectives; 11. Changing WIPO's Ways? The 2004 Development Agenda in Historical Perspective
Part III: Normative (Re)Production: Socialisation, Lobbying And Technical Assistance
12. Intellectual Property Rights and the Culture of Global Liberalism; 13. The Origins of a Trade-Based Approach to Intellectual Property Protection: The Role of Industry Associations; 14. Intellectual Property, Corporate Strategy, Globalisation: TRIPS in Context; 15. International Disputes Over Intellectual Property; 16. Capacity Building and the (Re)Production of Intellectual Property Rights; 17. Bilateral Technical Assistance and TRIPS: The United States, Japan and the European Communities in Comparative Perspective; 18. The World Intellectual Property Organization: Past, Present and Future
Part IV: Intellectual Property: Critique Or Abolition?
19. A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?; 20. Information as Gift and Commodity; 21. Whose Molecule is it Anyway? Private and Social Perspectives on Intellectual Property; 22. Against Intellectual Property; 23. A Rights-free World – Is it Workable, and What is the Point?
Index
Published
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, Publishing, 2010.
Language
English
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