Protect Or Plunder?: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights; Author: Shiva, Vandana; Paperback

Author: Shiva, Vandana
Global Issues; Paperback; Tables, References, Index
144 pages
Published: November 2001
Zed Books
ISBN: 1842771094

Vandana Shiva shows how 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 technologies and inventions can be exploited for profits -- an issue that lies at the heart of the so-called knowledge economy. This book highlights why popular resistance around the world is rising to the WTO that polices this new intellectual world order, and the pharmaceutical, biotech, and other corporations that dominate it -- and the new technologies theyare foisting upon humans.Understanding Intellectual Property Rights. 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.