Globalization And Intellectual Property

by George,Alexandra

• ISBN13: 9780754624035
• ISBN10: 075462403X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume deals with the politics, economics and effects of global intellectual propertization. It provides essays covering key issues including the international relations of global intellectual propertization, the TRIPS Agreement and the tying of intellectual property issues to international trade negotiations, contentions that global intellectual propertization is a form of post-colonial neo-imperialism, globalization's effects on intellectual property law's classic doctrines and rationales and the cultural effects of global intellectual propertization.

Table of Contents

The Politics and Economics of Global Intellectual Propertization

The international relations of intellectual property

Why IPRs are a global political issue

The economics of intellectual property rights and the GATT: a view from the South

Intellectual property rights in transition. Trade-Linked Intellectual Property Negotiations: Lateralisms and TRIPS

Battle of lateralisms: intellectual property and trade

Industry strategies for intellectual property and trade: the quest for TRIPS, and post-TRIPS strategies

from free riders to fair followers: global competition under the TRIPs agreement

BITS and BIPS: Bilateralism in intellectual property. Neo-Imperialism? Global Intellectual Propertisation in a Post-Colonial Age

The global intellectual property system and Sub-Saharan Africa: a prognostic reflection

North-South disputes over the protection of intellectual property

TRIPS - natural rights and a 'Polite Form of Economic Imperialism'

Neocolonialism, anticommons property, and biopiracy in the (Not-So-Brave) New World Order of international intellectual property protection. Globalization's Effects on Intellectual Property Law's Classic Doctrines and Rationales

The integration of international and domestic intellectual property lawmaking

A long, strange TRIPS: the pharmaceutical industry drive to harmonize global intellectual property rules, and the remaining WTO legal alternatives available to Third World Countries

Harmonization and the goals of copyright: property rights or cultural progress?

The globalization of private knowledge goods and the privatization of global public goods. Beyond Law: Cultural Effects of Global Intellectual Propertization

The impact of foreign investment on indigenous culture: an intellectual property perspective

Has creativity died in the Third World? some implications of the internationalization of intellectual property

Cultural life of things: approaches to law and society in conditions of globalization

Index

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