Politics of intellectual property : contestation over the ownership, use, and control of knowledge and information
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Politics of intellectual property : contestation over the ownership, use, and control of knowledge and information
Edward Elgar, c2009
- : hbk
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  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
Gaelle 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
Index
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