Global intellectual property rights

Peter Drahos, Ruth Mayne (eds)

Palgrave Macmillan - Basingstoke

2002

Intellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries. Global Intellectual Property Rights shows how the new global rules of intellectual property have been the product of the strategic behaviour of multinationals, rather than democratic dialogue.