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Protect or Plunder? - Understanding Intellectual Property Rights (Paperback)
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Protect or Plunder? - Understanding Intellectual Property Rights (Paperback)
Series: Global Issues
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Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound
technical, even boring. Yet what kinds of ideas, technologies,
identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be
owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital
issue for our times. Vandana Shiva shows how the Western-inspired
and unprecedented widening of the concept of intellectual poperty
does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of
knowledge. Instead, it is being exploited by transnational
corporations to increase their profits at the expense of the health
of ordinary people especially the poor, and the age-old knowledge
of the world's farmers. Intellectual protection is being
transformed into corporate plunder. Little wonder popular
resistance is rising around the world to the World Trade
Organization, that polices this new intellectual world order, the
pharmaceutical, biotech and other corporations which dominate it,
and the new technologies they are foisting upon us.
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