基本説明
Explores the contested nature of the ownership of knowledge and access to it in Asia.
Full Description
This volume explores the contested nature of the ownership of knowledge and access to it in Asia. It offers insights into solving some of the key issues related to intellectual property (IP) and communication in the contemporary world.
With the ownership of IP becoming a core feature of media/information industries and state policy, issues related to access to knowledge and its use have become a matter of critical concern. While trade regimes, the state and the core cultural and information industries have begun to advocate greater scope for a variety of knowledge enclosures, civil society is increasingly arguing for a people-centered vision of knowledge futures. This vision includes the need for equity-based and flexible licensing regimes; the legitimacy of local solutions to IP related issues; support for cultural diversity; and access to knowledge based on need rather than the ability to pay for knowledge.
This book explores these important issues, supported by case studies from the Asian region. It presents an extensive picture of a dynamic and complex process that reveals some of the dilemmas of the digital age.
Contents
Introduction - Pradip Thomas and Jan Servaes
The Emerging Information Economy - Roberto Verzola
An Overview
United States' Trade Policy and the Reshaping of Intellectual Property Rights Protection in the APEC Region - Stephen D McDowell and Moonki Hong
Copyright and the Global Good? An Examination of `the Public Interest' in International Copyright Regimes - Sara Bannerman
Copyright, Competition Policy and Prevention of Monopolistic Abuses in the TRIPS Agreement - Daya Shanker
Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of New Technologies - Levi Obijiofor
Whose Knowledge?
Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights - Kamal Puri
The Interface
Learning to Love the Market - Lucy Montgomery and Michael Keane
Copyright, Culture and China
China's Efforts for International Cooperation in Copyright Protection - Yonghua Zhang
Culture, Communication and the Meaning of Intellectual Property Rights in South Asia - Binod C Agrawal
A Critical Analysis
Uncommon Futures - Pradip Thomas
Interpreting IP Contestations in India
Australian Sport, Property Rights and the Emerging Information Monopoly - Rhonda Breit
Creative Commons - Brian Fitzgerald
Accessing, Negotiating and Remixing Online Content
Alternative Intellectual Property Regimes in the Global Creative Economy - Terry Flew, Greg Hearn and Susanna Leisten
IPR and Communications - Pradip Thomas and Jan Servaes
Markets, Communities and the Public Domain
