| Description |
ix, 317 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
CIER series |
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CIER series.
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| Contents |
Pt I: Setting the Stage: The Law and its Trends. 1. General Introduction / Willem Grosheide -- 2. Human Rights Law Status Report / Cees Flinterman -- 3. Expansion and Convergence in Copyright Law / Madeleine de Cock Buning -- 4. Patents and Human Rights: Where is the Paradox? / Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss -- Pt II: Intellectual Property Rights as Human Rights. 5. Introduction / Jerzy Koopman -- Copyright Law and Patent Law: To its Recognition - Differing Views. 6. Is Copyright Fit for the 21st Century? No! / Joost Smiers -- 7. Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and the Right to Health / Duncan Matthews -- 8. On Patents and Human Rights / Jan Brinkhof -- 9. Current Patent Laws Cannot Claim the Backing of Human Rights / Wendy J. Gordon -- Pt III: Human Rights as Restrictions to Intellectual Property Rights. 10. Introduction / Lucky Belder -- Copyright Law and Patent Law: To its Enforcement - Differing Views. 11. A Practical Analysis of the Human Rights Paradox in Intellectual Property Law: Russian Roulette / Charlotte Waelde and Abbe E.L. Brown -- 12. Human Rights' Limitations in Patent Law / Geertrui van Overwalle -- 13. Human Rights as a Constraint on Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Patent Plant Variety Protection Rights, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge / Charles R. McManis -- 14. A Comment on 'Human Rights as a Constraint on Intellectual Property Rights: the Case of Patent and Plant Variety Protection Rights, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge' / Martin J. Adelman |
| Summary |
In the modern era where the rise of the knowledge economy is accompanied, if not facilitated, by an ever-expanding use of intellectual property rights, this timely book provides a much needed explanation to the relationship between intellectual property law and human rights law. -- |
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The contributors promote the view that this relationship should be central to the analysis of many of the profound problems that nation states and the international community encounter today, be they scientific, technological or cultural. The book is divided into sections covering the law and its trends, IP rights as human rights and human rights as restrictions to IP rights. -- |
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This stimulating book will appeal to academics, postgraduate students, national and international public authorities and those involved with international organizations in the fields of intellectual property law and human rights law. --Book Jacket |
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G̀€athering together essays by leading commentators, Professor Willem Grosheide's timely book offers an excellent overview of the many significant questions of social and legal policy that emerge at interface between intellectual property and human rights. The relationship between intellectual property and human rights is, or should be, central to the thinking of everyone concerned with some of the most profound problems with which individual nations and the international community must now contend - including scientific, technological, and cultural development, public health, access to culture, education, freedom of expression, rights of indigenous peoples and the rights of creative workers. Providing a range of views on the human rights implications of intellectual property law and policy, this collection makes a valuable contribution to current debates on these critically important issues.' ---Graeme Austin, University of Arizona, USA -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human rights.
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Intellectual property -- Social aspects.
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Intellectual property.
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| Author |
Grosheide, F. W.
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Centre for Intellectual Property Law (CIER)
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| LC no. |
2009933407 |
| ISBN |
1848444478 (hbk.) |
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9781848444478 |
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