Politics of Intellectual Property: Contestation Over the Ownership, Use, and Control of Knowledge and Information
Sebastian Haunss (Ed.)
Sebastian Haunss and Kenneth C. Shadlen, along with a collection of eminent contributors, focus on how business organizations, farmers, social movements, legal communities, state officials, transnational enterprises, and international organizations shape IP policies in areas such as health, information-communication technologies, indigenous knowledge, genetic resources, and many others. The innovative and original chapters examine conflicts over the rules governing various dimensions of IP, including patents, copyrights, traditional knowledge, and biosafety regulations.
Written from a political perspective, this book is a must-read for political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists who study IP and conflicts over property. It is also an essential read for stakeholders in institutions, NGOs and industry interested in knowledge governance and IP politics.
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Intellectual Property Watch 'We know much more about the global politics of intellectual property than we do about national political contests over the ownership of knowledge. Haunss and Shadlen have identified this gap in the literature and have done a fine job of bringing together a set of essays that helps to fill this gap in our understanding of the multi-layered nature of intellectual property politics.'
Peter Drahos, The Australian National University, Canberra 'This thought-provoking volume provides invaluable new insights and is a major contribution to the debate on the politics of intellectual property rights.'
Duncan Matthews, Queen Mary, University of London, UK