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Item Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development(Bloomsbury Academic, 2010) Shaver, LeaAccess to knowledge is a demand for democratic participation, for global inclusion and for economic justice. It is a reaction to the excessively restrictive international IP regime put in place over the last two decades, which seeks to reassert the public interest in a more balanced information policy. With sponsorship from the Ford Foundation, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School has embarked on a new series of access to knowledge research, in partnership with colleagues in Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Russia and South Africa. The first book in this series, Access to Knowledge in Brazil, focuses on current issues in intellectual property, innovation and development policy from a Brazilian perspective. Each chapter is authored by scholars from the Fundação Getulio Vargas law schools in São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro and examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge in the country. These include: exceptions and limitations to copyright, free software and open business models, patent reform and access to medicines, and open innovation in the biotechnology sector.Item Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development(Bloomsbury Academic, 2010) Shaver, Lea; Rizk, NaglaThe conventional wisdom in Egypt examines the issue of intellectual property solely as a question of policing and enforcement. The high levels of protection indicated by the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights are unquestioningly assumed to be desirable. Policy debates - and all too often academic ones as well - focus only on the questions of how to more efficiently tighten IP protection and crack down on piracy. Yet a more critical examination is urgently needed, whereby IP law, policy, and practice are viewed from a development perspective, rather than from an enforcement perspective. This volume takes on this endeavor. It offers the first examination of IP issues in Egypt adopting a multidisciplinary bottom-up approach that aims at maximizing access and contribution to knowledge, and in turn, promoting development. Bringing rigorous empirical research to bear on unquestioned ideologies, the collaborating authors question the conventional wisdom that more IP protection is necessarily better for innovation and development.Item A history of patenting life in the United States with comparative attention to Europe and Canada: a report to the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies(Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002-01-12) Kevles, DanielDiscusses the ethical issues of patenting life forms such as plants and microorganisms, with the wider implications of patenting human stem cell technology.Item Study on the patenting of inventions related to human stem cell research. [Appendix 1](Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002) European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European CommissionDiscusses the ethical issues of patenting stem cell technology.Item Study on the patenting of inventions related to human stem cell research. [Appendix 2](Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002) European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European CommissionDiscusses the ethical issues of patenting stem cell technology.Item Study on the patenting of inventions related to human stem cell research. [Appendix 3](Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002) European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European CommissionDiscusses the ethical issues of patenting stem cell technology.Item Study on the patenting of inventions related to human stem cell research. [Appendix 4](Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002) European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European CommissionDiscusses the ethical issues of patenting stem cell technology.Item Study on the patenting of inventions related to human stem cell research. [Appendix 5](Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002) European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European CommissionDiscusses the ethical issues of patenting stem cell technology.Item Study on the patenting of inventions related to human stem cell research. [Appendix 6](Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002) European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European CommissionDiscusses the ethical issues of patenting stem cell technology.Item Study on the patenting of inventions related to human stem cell research. [Appendix 7](Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002) European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European CommissionDiscusses the ethical issues of patenting stem cell technology.