Globalization and Intellectual Property

Alexandra George is Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London, UK.

• Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I The Politics and Economics of Global Intellectual Propertization: The international relations of intellectual property, W.R. Cornish; Why IPRs are a global political issue, Christopher May; The economics of intellectual property rights and the GATT: a view from the South, Carlos Alberto Primo Braga. Part II Trade-Linked Intellectual Property Negotiations: Lateralisms and TRIPs: Battle of lateralisms: intellectual property and trade, Robert P. Merges; Industry strategies for intellectual property and trade: the quest for TRIPS, and post-TRIPS strategies, Susan K. Sell; BITs and BIPs: bilateralism in intellectual property, Peter Drahos. Part III Neo-Imperialism? Global Intellectual Propertization in a Post-Colonial Age: The global intellectual property system and sub-Saharan Africa: a prognostic reflection, Adebambo Adewopo; North-South disputes over the protection of intellectual property, R. Stephen Richardson and James D. Gaisford; TRIPS - natural rights and 'a polite form of economic imperialism', A. Samuel Oddi; Neocolonialism, anticommons property, and biopiracy in the (not-so-brave) new world order, Keith Aoki. Part IV Globalization's Effects on Intellectual Property Law's Classic Doctrines and Rationales: The integration of international and domestic intellectual property lawmaking, Graeme B. Dinwoodie; A long strange TRIPS: the pharmaceutical industry drive to harmonize global intellectual property rules, and the remaining WTO legal alternatives available to third world countries, Robert Weissman; Harmonization and the goals of copyright: property rights or cultural progress?, Kenneth D. Crews; The globalization of private knowledge goods and the privatization of global public goods, Keith E. Maskus and Jerome H. Reichman. Part V Beyond Law: Cultural Effects of Global Intellectual Propertization: The impact of foreign investment on indigenous culture: an intellectual property perspective, Doris Estelle Long; Ha