About this title: Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet 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. Vandana Shiva shows how the Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the concept of intellectual poperty does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of knowledge. Instead, it is being exploited by transnational corporations to increase their profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Shiva, Vandana
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781842771099ISBN:1842771094
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Global Issues. Audience: General/trade. Appears to be gently read! Minor shelf and edge wear, no markings or highlighting. Cover has some scuffing and minor scratches. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781842771099ISBN:1842771094
Description: New. 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... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ZED BOOKS LTD
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781842771099ISBN:1842771094
Description: New. Vandana Shiva shows how the protection of intellectual property is being transformed into corporate plunder, looking at how Western-inspired laws do not stimulate human creativity or knowledge. This compelling book looks at what ideas, technologies, ... read more
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