Intellectual Property Rights

With intellectual property widely acknowledged today as a key component of economic development, those accused of stealing knowledge and information are also charged with undermining industrial innovation, artistic creativity, and the availability of information itself. How valid are these claims? Has the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs) Agreement ushered in a new, better era? Christopher May and Susan Sell trace the history of social conflict and political machinations surrounding the making of property out of knowledge. Ranging from ancient commerce in Greek poems to present-day controversies about on-line piracy and the availability of AIDS drugs in the poorest countries, May and Sell present intellectual property law as a continuing process in which particular conceptions of rights and duties are institutionalized; each settlement prompts new disputes, policy shifts, and new disputes again. They also examine the post-TRIPs era in the context of this process. Their account of two thousand years of technological advances, legal innovation, and philosophical arguments about the character of knowledge production suggests that the future of intellectual property law will be as contested as its past.

ISBN 1588263630   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781588263636 (What's this?)   Pages 250 Publisher Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc   Volumes 001 Imprint Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc   Published in Boulder, CO Format Hardback   Series title Ipolitics Publication date 30 Sep 2005   Height (mm) 240 Library of Congress K1401.M393   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 346.048

1		Why you need to know about intellectual property		1
2		Ideas and technology		15
3		The emergence of intellectual property rights		43
4		Commerce vs. romantic notions of authorship and invention		75
5		The nineteenth century : technological development and international law		107
6		The twentieth century : intellectual property rights consolidated		133
7		The twenty-first century : TRIPs and beyond		161
8		Forgetting history is not an option		203

"The two leading scholars of intellectual property rights in international relations join forces to create a definitive political economy: historically informed, theoretically sophisticated, and politically insightful." - Robert A. Denemark, University of Delaware"

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