This collection of 21 articles describes the interrelationships amongst intellectual property and human rights, copyright, trademarks, rights to information, and patents. Specific topics include rulings on intellectual property by courts, proportionality and balancing within the objectives for intellectual property protection, copyright as a human right, the free speech benefits of "fair dealing" defenses, the human right to education and copyright, the right to an immoral trademark, cultural values that are in conflict with common law, freedom of information acts and private law restraints in disclosure, rights of privacy for corporations, ethical and religious concerns in patent law related to human embryos and stem cells, and the human rights implications of patents in biotechnological knowledge. Distributed in North America by Aspen Publishers, Inc. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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