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Grosheide, Willem

Intellectual property and human rights : A Paradox / by Willem Grosheide - UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010. - ix, 317p. ; 24cm.

PART I: SETTING THE STAGE: THE LAW AND ITS TRENDS
1. General Introduction
Willem Grosheide
2. Human Rights Law Status Report
Cees Flinterman
3. Expansion and Convergence in Copyright Law
Madeleine de Cock Buning
4. Patents and Human Rights: Where is the Paradox?
Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss
PART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS
5. Introduction
Jerzy Koopman
COPYRIGHT LAW AND PATENT LAW: TO ITS RECOGNITION – DIFFERING VIEWS
6. Is Copyright Fit for the 21st Century? No!
Joost Smiers
7. Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and the Right to Health
Duncan Matthews
8. On Patents and Human Rights
Jan Brinkhof
9. Current Patent Laws Cannot Claim the Backing of Human Rights
Wendy J. Gordon
PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS AS RESTRICTIONS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
10. Introduction
Lucky Belder
COPYRIGHT LAW AND PATENT LAW: TO ITS ENFORCEMENT – DIFFERING VIEWS
11. A Practical Analysis of the Human Rights Paradox in Intellectual Property Law: Russian Roulette
Charlotte Waelde and Abbe E.L. Brown
12. Human Rights’ Limitations in Patent Law
Geertrui Van Overwalle
13. Human Rights as a Constraint on Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Patent and Plant Variety Protection Rights, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
Charles R. McManis
14. A Comment on ‘Human Rights as a Constraint on Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Patent and Plant Variety Protection Rights, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge’
Martin J. Adelman
Index

ISBN: 9781848444478

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights
Intellectual property - Social aspects
Intellectual property

Dewey Class. No.: 342.085 / GRO