ABSTRACT
Intellectual property laws have become intricately entwined with discussions about globalization. This volume deals with the politics, economics and effects of global intellectual propertization. It provides essays covering key issues including the international relations of global intellectual propertization, the TRIPS Agreement and the tying of intellectual property issues to international trade negotiations, contentions that global intellectual propertization is a form of post-colonial neo-imperialism, globalization's effects on intellectual property law's classic doctrines and rationales and the cultural effects of global intellectual propertization.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|48 pages
The Politics and Economics of Global Intellectual Propertization
part 2|58 pages
Trade-Linked Intellectual Property Negotiations: Lateralisms and TRIPS
part 3|136 pages
Neo-Imperialism? Global Intellectual Propertization in a Post-Colonial Age
part 4|135 pages
Globalization’s Effects on Intellectual Property Law’s Classic Doctrines and Rationales
part 5|199 pages
Beyond Law: Cultural Effects of Global Intellectual Propertization