ABSTRACT
In the not-so-brave new world order following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, questions about the limits of the nation-state and the market are more important than ever. There are three large categories that may used to discuss about the politics of international intellectual property protection. These categories consist of issues raised when asking questions about the following: the political economy of intellectual property, considered both domestically and globally; that which James Boyle has called "Logging the Cyberforest", basically, how are we to think about the intellectual "commons", or public domain; and the legitimacy of various types of cultural appropriation. The chapter describes some of the issues in each of these three areas and suggests some tentative connections pointing in the direction of understanding the rapidly emerging politics of intellectual property law, international and otherwise. It talks about the emerging globalized vision of intellectual property protection embedded in multilateral agreements.
