Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Overview
- 1 Intellectual property through the lens of human development
- 2 Intellectual property and medicine: Towards global health equity
- 3 Food security and intellectual property rights: Finding the linkages
- 4 Trends and scenarios in the legal protection of traditional knowledge
- 5 Traditional cultural expressions: Preservation and innovation
- 6 Copyright and capability for education: An approach ‘from below’
- 7 Knowledge and education: Pro-access implications of new technologies
- 8 Cultural diversity and the arts: Contemporary challenges for copyright law
- 9 Scenario planning on the future of intellectual property: Literature review and implications for human development
- Appendix A Capability, opulence and utility1
- Appendix B Exploring alternative, collaborative models of innovation for medicines and vaccines1
- Appendix C Strategies and laws to promote traditional medicinal knowledge1
- Appendix D Educational use exceptions to copyright: A comparison among selected jurisdictions1
- Appendix E Copyright and contemporary art: A case study
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Overview
- 1 Intellectual property through the lens of human development
- 2 Intellectual property and medicine: Towards global health equity
- 3 Food security and intellectual property rights: Finding the linkages
- 4 Trends and scenarios in the legal protection of traditional knowledge
- 5 Traditional cultural expressions: Preservation and innovation
- 6 Copyright and capability for education: An approach ‘from below’
- 7 Knowledge and education: Pro-access implications of new technologies
- 8 Cultural diversity and the arts: Contemporary challenges for copyright law
- 9 Scenario planning on the future of intellectual property: Literature review and implications for human development
- Appendix A Capability, opulence and utility1
- Appendix B Exploring alternative, collaborative models of innovation for medicines and vaccines1
- Appendix C Strategies and laws to promote traditional medicinal knowledge1
- Appendix D Educational use exceptions to copyright: A comparison among selected jurisdictions1
- Appendix E Copyright and contemporary art: A case study
- Index
Summary
Preface
We all share the desire to live healthy and meaningful lives, in communities that keep us safe, provide us and our children with educational and employment opportunities and leave us the freedom to choose our own paths. Economist Amartya Sen challenged societies to pursue these ends – referred to as human development – rather than only narrower objectives like increasing gross domestic product. That is, we should measure individual endeavour and national wealth in terms of how well each of us can live rich rewarding lives, not just how much financial output we produce per capita. Moreover, we should organize our social institutions to help us in this broader effort.
This book brings a human development perspective to the complex institutions, laws and practices referred to collectively as intellectual property, or ‘IP’. What is the role of IP in human development? The answers to be found in the following chapters provide a fresh look at IP and how it affects the ability of people in developing countries to benefit from advances in medicine, agriculture, education, the arts and cultural traditions. The authors go further by looking at how trends and future changes in IP laws might impact people in developing countries, for better or worse.
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- Intellectual Property and Human DevelopmentCurrent Trends and Future Scenarios, pp. xxi - xxivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010