Full Description
As knowledge production has become a more salient part of the economy, intellectual property laws have expanded. From a backwater of specialists in patent, copyright, and trademark law, intellectual property has become linked to trade through successive international agreements, and appreciated as key to both economic and cultural development. Furthermore, law has begun to engage the interest of economists, political theorists, and human rights advocates. However, because each discipline sees intellectual property in its own way, legal scholarship and practice have diverged, and the debate over intellectual property law has become fragmented. This book is aimed at bringing this diverse scholarship and practice together. It examines intellectual property through successive lenses (incentive theory, trade, development, culture, and human rights) and ends with a discussion of whether and how these fragmented views can be reconciled and integrated.
Contents
Preface; 1. In praise of an incentive-based theory of intellectual property protection Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss; 2. Copyright and creative incentives: what do(n't) we know? Christopher Sprigman; 3. Reframing intellectual property rights with fewer distortions of the trade paradigm Jerome H. Reichman; 4. The fusion of intellectual property and trade Susy Frankel; 5. Flexibilities in the implementation of TRIPS: an analysis of their impact on technological innovation and public health in Asia Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng and Albert Guangzhou Hu; 6. Image rights and other unorthodox forms of intellectual property Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas; 7. Taking the Mickey out of Disney: a cultural approach to the transformative use doctrine in copyright law David Tan; 8. Authors' human rights in the intellectual property framework Graeme W. Austin; 9. Intellectual property in the image of human rights: a critical review Ruth L. Okediji; 10. Framing the international intellectual property system Graeme Dinwoodie and Annette Kur; Commentary: framing intellectual property law in the twenty-first century: a policy practitioner's perspective Yih-San Tan and Sandra Yu; Commentary on Chapter 1: 'In praise of an incentive-based theory of intellectual property protection' Mark Lim Fung-Chian; Commentary on Chapter 6: 'Image rights and other unorthodox forms of intellectual property' Wee Loon Ng-Loy; Index.
