Politics of Intellectual Property: Contestation Over the Ownership, Use, and Control of Knowledge and Information - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184844303X ISBN 13: 9781848443037

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184844303X
• ISBN 13: 9781848443037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Haunss Sebastian, Shadlen Kenneth C.