Intellectual Property and Human Rights: A Paradox - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848444478 ISBN 13: 9781848444478

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

In the modern era where the rise of the knowledge economy is accompanied, if not facilitated, by an ever-expanding use of intellectual property rights, this timely book provides a much needed explanation to the relationship between intellectual property law and human rights law.

The contributors promote the view that this relationship should be central to the analysis of many of the profound problems that nation states and the international community encounter today, be they scientific, technological or cultural. The book is divided into sections covering the law and its trends, IP rights as human rights and human rights as restrictions to IP rights.

This stimulating book will appeal to academics, postgraduate students, national and international public authorities and those involved with international organizations in the fields of intellectual property law and human rights law.

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Edited by Willem Grosheide, Van Doorne Lawyers, The Netherlands

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848444478
• ISBN 13: 9781848444478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Grosheide Willem