Protect or Plunder?

Understanding Intellectual Property Rights

Vandana Shiva

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English

Zed Books
30 November 2001

History of ideas; International economic & trade law; Intellectual property law; Mathematics & Sciences; Philosophy of science

Series: Global Issues

Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. Vandana Shiva shows how the Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the concept of intellectual poperty does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of knowledge. Instead, it is being exploited by transnational corporations to increase their profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people especially the poor, and the age-old knowledge of the world's farmers. Intellectual protection is being transformed into corporate plunder. Little wonder popular resistance is rising around the world to the World Trade Organization, that polices this new intellectual world order, the pharmaceutical, biotech and other corporations which dominate it, and the new technologies they are foisting upon us.

By: Vandana Shiva
Imprint: Zed Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 9
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 155g
ISBN: 9781842771099
ISBN 10: 1842771094
Series: Global Issues
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 30 November 2001
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , ELT Advanced , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Patents - An Ethical Crisis 2. The Role of Patents in History 3. The Myth of Patents 4. Threats to Biodiversity 5. Biopiracy 6. Can Seed Be Owned? 7. Profiteering from Disease 8. Democracy or Dictatorship? 9. The Way Forward References Index

VANDANA SHIVA is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. A leader in the International Forum on Globalization, recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) and of the Earth Day Award, she is the author of several influential books, including: Staying Alive, The Violence of the Green Revolution, Monocultures of the Mind, Biopiracy, and Stolen Harvest, all published by Zed.

Reviews for Protect or Plunder?: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights

"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"