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Protect or Plunder: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights: Global Issues

Autor Vandana Shiva
en Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2001

Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet, as Vandana Shiva shows, what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times.

In this readable and compelling introduction to an issue that lies at the heart of the so-called knowledge economy, Vandana Shiva makes clear how this Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the concept does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of knowledge. Instead, it is being exploited by transnational corporations in order to increase their profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people, and the poor in particular, and the age-old knowledge and independence of the world's farmers. Intellectual protection is being transformed into corporate plunder. Little wonder popular resistance around the world is rising to the WTO that polices this new intellectual world order, the pharmaceutical, biotech and other corporations which dominate it, and the new technologies they are foisting upon us.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781842771099
ISBN-10: 1842771094
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: tables, references, index
Dimensiuni: 129 x 199 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: ZED BOOKS
Colecția Zed Books
Seria Global Issues

Locul publicării:United Kingdom

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Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - all the ideas, technologies (including genes), and manipulation of life forms that are current can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations. This book explores and analyzes how intellectual copyright can be seen as corporate plunder.