INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Enhanced Edition of Copyright and Human Rights

by Torremans, Paul L. C.

• ISBN13: 9789041126535
• ISBN10: 9041126538
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law and Business

Summary

Human rights issues arise more and more often in an intellectual property context. Intellectual Property and Human Rights is the first comprehensive analysis of this emerging nexus of legal issues. In twenty-one incisive essays, well-known authorities in both intellectual property law and human rights law present in-depth analysis and discussion of such essential topics as the following: The human rights credentials of copyright and other intellectual property rights; The relations between copyright and freedom of speech and of expression, from the perspectives of both North American and European law; The relevance to copyright of the public interest defence in European law; The way trade marks and human rights interfere; The human rights and morality aspects of biotechnological patents and stem cell patents; The interaction between human rights and geographical indications and The fundamental rights of privacy in an intellectual property environment. In the years to come, more and more lawyers will be confronted with issues involving the interaction of intellectual property and human rights. As a groundbreaking work Intellectual Property and Human Rights will be seen as a cornerstone of the debate. Practitioners, academics and policymakers in both fields will immediately recognize its value as a springboard To The informed future development of this new and crucial area of legal theory and practice. This book is an enhanced edition of the title Copyright and Human Rights published in 2004. In addition to updating six chapters of this earlier edition, some 15 chapters on other IP topics were added.

Table of Contents

The Relationship between Intellectual Property and Human Rights

Intellectual Property and Human Rights: Learning to Live Together

The New Innovation Frontier? Intellectual Property and the European Court of Human Rights

Challenges to the Development of a Human- Rights Framework for Intellectual Property

The Constitutional Dimension of Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights: Coinciding and Cooperating

Proportionality and Balancing within the Objectives for Intellectual Property Protection

Copyright (and Other Intellectual Property Rights) as a Human Right

Copyright and Human Rights

Copyright and Freedom of Expression in Canada

The Free Speech Benefits of Fair Dealing Defences

Copyright Law Reform through a Human Rights Lens

The Conflict between the Human Right to Education and Copyright

Trade Marks, Related Rights and Human Rights

Is There a Right to and Immoral Trade Mark?

Trade Marks and Human Rights

Some Cultural Narrative Themes and Variations in the Common Law

Geographical Indications and Human Rights

Rights in Informations

Recapturing Liberated Information: The Relationship Between the United Kingdom s Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Private Law Restraints on Disclosure

'Holding the Line'- the Relationship between the Public Interest and Remedies Granted or Refused, be it for Breach of Confidence or Copyright

Privacy, Confidentiality and Property

A Right of Privacy for Corporations?

Patents and Human Rights

Research on Human Embryos and Stem Cells: Weaving Ethical and Religious Concerns into the Framework of Patent Law in Malaysia

Human Rights Implications of Patenting Biotechnical Knowledge

Index

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