Title: Protect or Plunder?: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights (Global Issues)
Publisher: Zed Books
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1842771094
ISBN 13: 9781842771099
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 4 ounces

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Vandana Shiva shows how the protection of intellectual property is being transformed into corporate plunder, looking at how Western-inspired laws do not stimulate human creativity or knowledge. This compelling book looks at what ideas, technologies, and inventions can be exploited for profit by giant corporations in “knowledge economy.” This book highlights why popular resistance around the world is rising to the WTO that polices this new intellectual world order, and the pharmaceutical, biotech, and other corporations which dominate it—and the new technologies they are foisting upon humans.

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Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. She is 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.

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