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Intellectual Property and Human Rights: Learning to Live Together
Intellectual Property and Human Rights (2008)
  • Daniel J Gervais, University of Ottawa
Abstract

Intellectual property and human rights must learn to live together. Traditionally, there have been two dominant views of this “cohabitation,” namely a conflict view, which emphasizes the negative impacts of intellectual property on rights such as freedom of expression or the right to health and security, and a compatibility model, which emphasizes that both sets of rights strive towards the same fundamental equilibrium. This Chapter takes the dualist view that both are right, though there is, and should be, much more truth to the second approach in the coming years.

Keywords
  • human rights,
  • intellectual property,
  • copyright,
  • patents
Disciplines
Publication Date
2008
Editor
Paul L.C. Torremans
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Series
Information Law
ISBN
978-90-411-2653-5
Publisher Statement
(c) 2008 Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands and Daniel J. Gervais
Citation Information
Daniel J Gervais. "Intellectual Property and Human Rights: Learning to Live Together" New YorkIntellectual Property and Human Rights Vol. 18 (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/daniel_gervais/13/