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Protect or Plunder? : Understanding Intellectual Property Rights - Vandana Shiva

Protect or Plunder?

Understanding Intellectual Property Rights

By: Vandana Shiva

Paperback | 30 November 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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, and inventions can be exploited for profit by giant corporations in “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 which dominate it—and the new technologies they are foisting upon humans.
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, and inventions can be exploited for profit by giant corporations in “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 which dominate it—and the new technologies they are foisting upon humans.
Industry Reviews
One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.' The Guardian

'The South's best known environmentalist.' New Internationalist

'Vandana Shiva is a leading physicist who abandoned an exciting career in her country's nuclear energy programme because she felt .... that arrogant late 20th century science now poses such a threat to the "web of life" (of which we are merely a part) that a committed scientist should take the side of Nature against further artifice and destruction.' The Observer

'Vandana Shiva is a burst of creative energy and intellectual power.' The Progressive

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Non-FictionPolitics & GovernmentSociety & CultureCultural StudiesHistory of IdeasScienceScience in GeneralPhilosophy of ScienceLawInternational LawPublic International LawInternational Economic & Trade Law
Laws of Specific JurisdictionsIntellectual Property LawPatents Law

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