Intellectual Property and Human Development - Current Trends and Future Scenarios (Paperback)

This book examines the social impact of intellectual property laws. It addresses issues and trends relating to health, food security, education, new technologies, preservation of bio-cultural heritage, and contemporary challenges in promoting the arts. It explores how intellectual property frameworks could be better calibrated to meet socioeconomic needs in countries at different stages of development, with local contexts and culture in mind. Scenarios for the future are discussed. A resource for policy-makers, stakeholders, non-profits, and students, this volume furthermore highlights alternative modes of innovation that are emerging to address such diverse challenges as neglected or resurgent diseases in developing countries and the harnessing of creative possibilities on the Internet. The collected essays emphasize not only fair access by individuals and communities to intellectual property protected material, whether a cure, a crop variety, clean technology, a textbook, or a tune but also the enhancement of their own capabilities in cultural participation and innovation.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2011
Editors:	Tzen Wong • Graham Dutfield
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-13828-4
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Personal property law > Intellectual property, copyright & patents Promotions
LSN:	0-521-13828-0
Barcode:	9780521138284

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