Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain

Joseph Henry Vogel is professor of economics at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras and has served as a technical advisor to the Ecuadorian delegation to the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity.Contributors: María José MORENO VIQUEIRA, Manuel RUIZ, Tomme YOUNG, Stephen B. BRUSH, Charles R. MCMANIS, Valentina DELICH, Camilo GOMIDES, Carlos A. MUÑIZ-OSORIO

• Preface; Acknowledgments; The Bauplan; Looking the Gorgon in the Face: The Ubiquity of Propaganda and the Business of Debate; Museums as Venues for Polemics: Exhibits that Provoke Controversy, Argumentation or Refutation; The Museum as a Vehicle for Considered Judgments on Access and Benefit Sharing; Clearing the Air: Applying the Intellectual Property Framework to National, Community, and Individual Rights in The Convention on Biological Diversity; The Tragedy of the Anti-commons Threat to Farmers' Rights: The Case of Crop Germplasm; The Moral Foundations of Intellectual Property and Conservation through Access and Benefit-Sharing; The Nameless Interloper in The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain: A Place, A Process, A Philosophy; Appendix: The Original Essay