Ebook: A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property

A wide-ranging critique of the concept and practice of intellectual property.;Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Why intellectual property? Why now?; 2. Running through the jungle; Section One: Historical context and conceptual frameworks; 3. Intellectual property rights and their diffusion around the world; 4. The political economy of intellectual property; 5. I am because I own vs. I am because we are; Section Two: Terrains of conflict and terms of engagement; 6. Owning up to owning traditional knowledge of medicinal plants; 7. Using human rights to move beyond reformism to radicalism; 8. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.