Knowledge as Property: Issues in the Moral Grounding of Intellectual Property Rights (Oxford India Paperbacks) - Softcover

Chandra, Rajshree

9780198089117: Knowledge as Property: Issues in the Moral Grounding of Intellectual Property Rights (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198089112 ISBN 13: 9780198089117

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

The book critically analyzes the nature and scope of intellectual property rights using three different approaches: the philosophical, the empirical, and the theoretical. It studies the different justifications usually put forward in favour of protecting intellectual property rights, and shows how such rights come into conflict with other rights in society. The volume also discusses their benefits and drawbacks with the help of case studies. The author contends that rights can and should be 'structured in a lexical order of priority where rights which are linked to survival strategies ought to have enough legal teeth to trump rights which are more in the nature of economic entitlements, like intellectual property rights are'.

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About the Author:

Rajshree Chandra is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi.

Review:

Overall this book will be of great help to those researchers and scholars who want to understand intellectual property rights and their impact on society. --The Indian Journal of Political Science

Rajshree Chandra reminds us of some new sources of critical morality emerging from people s movements that contest knowledge rights as privileging new ways of domination over lifeforms and lifeworlds in nature, culture, and society. This work, seeking to question the moral grounding for IPRs, constitutes a necessary as well as an immense provocation. --Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick, Warwick

Rajshree Chandra s book makes the normative and the empirical speak to each other persuasively and with admirable force. This theoretically sophisticated book reflects an acute understanding of intellectual property rights in the context of global inequalities and the hierarchies of knowledge between the global North and South. --Niraja Gopal Jayal, Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

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