1st Edition

The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights The New Enclosures?

By Christopher May Copyright 2000
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

It has become a commonplace that there has been an information revolution, transforming both society and the economy. In 1995 the Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement aimed to harmonise protection for property in knowledge throughout the global system. This book considers the contemporary disputes about the ownership of knowledge resources - as in the cases of genetically modified... Read more

Introduction  1. On institutions and property  2. Developing intellectual property  3. TRIPs as watershed  4. Sites of resistance - patenting nature, technology and skills?  5. Sites of consolidation - legitimate authorship?  6. Between commons and individuals

Biography

Christopher May