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Grosheide, Willem --- "Intellectual Property and Human Rights" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010) [2010] ELECD 323

Editor(s): Grosheide, Willem

Title: Intellectual Property and Human Rights

Sub-title: A Paradox

Topics: Human Rights; Intellectual Property Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 30 July 2010

Number of pages: 328

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848444478

EISBN: 9781849802048

Abstract/Description:

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.