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Are intellectual property rights like other property rights? More and more of the world's knowledge and information is under the control of intellectual property owners. What are the justifications for this? What are the implications for power and for justice of allowing this property form to range across social life? Can we look to traditional property theory to supply the answers or do we need a new approach? Intellectual property rights relate to abstract objects – objects like algorithms and DNA sequences. The consequences of creating property rights in such objects are far-reaching. A Philosophy of Intellectual Property argues that lying at the heart of intellectual property are duty-bearing privileges. We should adopt an instrumentalist approach to intellectual property and reject a proprietarian approach – an approach which emphasises the connection between labour and property rights. The analysis draws on the history of intellectual property, legal materials, the work of Grotius, Pufendorf, Locke, Marx and Hegel, as well as economic, sociological and legal theory. The book is designed to be accessible to specialists in a number of fields as well as students. It will interest philosophers, political scientists, economists, and legal scholars, as well as those professionals concerned with policy issues raised by modern technologies and the information society.

Background Australia provides statutory protection for intellectual property through patents, trade marks, geographical indications, registered designs, plant breeders' rights, copyright, moral rights, performers' rights and circuit layout rights. Current laws are consistent with treaties under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Health Organization to which Australia has acceded, as well as bilateral and regional trade agreements. The global economy and technology are changing and there have been increases in the scope and duration of intellectual property protection. The Australian Government seeks to ensure that the appropriate balance exists between incentives for innovation and investment and the interests of both individuals and businesses, including small businesses, in accessing ideas and products. This issues paper has been released by the Commission to assist individuals and organisations to prepare submissions to the inquiry. This paper outlines: the scope of the inquiry a proposed framework for considering intellectual property arrangements some broad questions about the objectives and operation of Australia's intellectual property arrangements, as well as some more specific questions, which relate to particular forms of intellectual property rights how to make a submission. Participants should not feel that they are restricted to comment only on matters raised in the issues paper. The Commission wishes to receive information and comment on issues that participants consider relevant to the inquiry's terms of reference. Submissions are due by 30 November 2015. Opportunity for further comment will be sought upon release of the draft report in March/April 2016.

The debate over international intellectual property rights has become an important foreign policy issue for many industrialized countries, and particularly for the United States. US companies complain that they have suffered greatly from the lack of rigorous and uniform international standards for intellectual property rights, and the US government has consequently undertaken to strengthen rights protection – through bilateral consultations with other countries and through multilateral forums such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization. Most developing countries have committed to raising their standards of intellectual property protection, but how quickly they will adopt new standards of protection and what form the standards will take remain open questions. Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets, edited by Clarisa Long, considers the three geographical regions that present the greatest intellectual property rights problems to US industries – China, Latin America, and India. The authors assess the effects of regional and local factors on levels of protection; describe how trade pacts, domestic interest groups, and development policies affect incentives to protect intellectual property rights; and propose steps to motivate the three regions to improve protection. Their findings and recommendations offer much-needed guidance to the US business community. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1122/thumbnail.jpg

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