Politics of Intellectual Property

Contestation Over the Ownership, Use, and Control of Knowledge and Information

Sebastian Haunss, Kenneth C. Shadlen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2009
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84844-303-7 (ISBN)

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This book offers empirical analyses of conflicts over the ownership, control, and use of knowledge and information in developed and developing countries.Sebastian Haunss and Kenneth C. Shadlen, along with a collection of eminent contributors, focus on how business organizations, farmers, social movements, legal communities, state officials, transnational enterprises, and international organizations shape IP policies in areas such as health, information-communication technologies, indigenous knowledge, genetic resources, and many others. The innovative and original chapters examine conflicts over the rules governing various dimensions of IP, including patents, copyrights, traditional knowledge, and biosafety regulations.

Written from a political perspective, this book is a must-read for political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists who study IP and conflicts over property. It is also an essential read for stakeholders in institutions, NGOs and industry interested in knowledge governance and IP politics.

Edited by Sebastian Haunss, University of Bremen, Germany and Kenneth C. Shadlen, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Contents:

1. Introduction: Rethinking the Politics of Intellectual Property
Sebastian Haunss and Kenneth C. Shadlen

2. The Post-TRIPS Politics of Patents in Latin America
Kenneth C. Shadlen

3. The Politics of Patents: Conditions of Implementation of Public Health Policy in Thailand
Gaëlle Krikorian

4. Illicit Seeds: Intellectual Property and the Underground Proliferation of Agricultural Biotechnologies
Ronald J. Herring and Milind Kandlikar

5. Who Speaks for the Tribe? The Arogyapacha Case in Kerala
Sabil Francis

6. Lobbying or Politics? Political Claims Making in IP Conflicts
Sebastian Haunss and Lars Kohlmorgen

7. Can Patent Legislation Make a Difference? Bringing Parliaments and Civil Society into Patent Governance
Ingrid Schneider

8. Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Movie Industry: Contemporary Political Conflicts in Germany
Lars Bretthauer

9. Who Benefits? An Empirical Analysis of Australian and US Patent Ownership
Hazel V.J. Moir

10. Timing, Continuity, and Change in the Patent System
Sivaramjani Thambisetty

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Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-84844-303-X / 184844303X
ISBN-13	978-1-84844-303-7 / 9781848443037
Zustand	Neuware