Intellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries. Global Intellectual Property Rights shows how the new global rules of intellectual property have been the product of the strategic behaviour of multinationals, rather than democratic dialogue. The final section of the book suggests strategies aimed at developing more flexible standard for poor countries, and for keeping knowledge in the intellectual commons.
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Description based upon print version of record. Intellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries. Global Intellectual Property Rights shows how the new global rules of intellectual property have been the product of the strategic behaviour of multinationals, rather than democratic dialogue. The final section of the book suggests strategies aimed at developing more flexible standard for poor countries, and for keeping knowledge in the intellectual commons.
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Cover Contents Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction Part I Innovation and Diffusion of Technology 2 Exploring the Hidden Costs of Patents 3 Pro-competitive Measures under TRIPS to Promote Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries Part II Development and Access to Technology: Genetics, Health, Agriculture, Education and Information Technology 4 Intellectual Property and the Human Genome 5 Access to Medicine and Compliance with the WTO TRIPS Accord: Models for State Practice in Developing Countries.
6 Access to Medicines: Patents, Prices and Public Policy - Consumer Perspectives 7 Agricultural Research: Intellectual Property and the CGIAR System 8 Don't Ignore Copyright, the 'Sleeping Giant' on the TRIPS and International Educational Agenda 9 Digital Millennium or Digital Dominion? The Effect of IPRs in Software on Developing Countries Part III Knowledge and Access: Who Makes the Rules? 10 Negotiating Intellectual Property Rights: Between Coercion and Dialogue 11 TRIPS and Developing Countries: How Level is the Playing Field?.
Part IV Ownership of Knowledge: Changing the Rules 12 Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights and TRIPS 13 India's Plant Variety Protection and Farmers' Rights Legislation 14 Defending the Public Interest in TRIPS and the WTO 15 The Global Campaign on Patents and Access to Medicines: An Oxfam Perspective
Available in Other Form
Print version: Drahos, Peter, Professor Global Intellectual Property Rights : Knowledge, Access and Development Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,c2002