Volume I:
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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?
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