Ethics and Law of Intellectual Property

1. Biobank Governance: Property, Privacy and Consent
2. Population Genetic Databases: A New Challenge to Human Rights
3. Intellectual Property Rights and the Right to Health: Considering the Case of Access to Medicines
4. International Protection of Human Genetic Data – The UNESCO Declaration on Human Genetic Data and the Possible Impact on Genetic Governance Models
5. TRIPS Jurisprudence in the Balance: Between the Realist Defense of Policy Space and a Shared Utilitarian Ethic
6. Exclusive Property Rights in the Biosciences: An Ethical Discussion
7. Enclosing the “Knowledge Commons”: Patenting Genes for Disease Risk and Drug Response at the University–Industry Interface
8. Reconceptualizing Genetics: Challenges to Traditional Medical Ethics
9. Lack of Access to Essential Drugs: A Story of Continuing Global Failure, with Particular Attention to the Role of Patents
10. Out of Touch: From Corporeal to Incorporeal, or Moore Revisited
11. Knowledge and Information – Private Property or Common Good? A Global Perspective
12. The Limit of Balancing Interests Through Copyright Levies
13. The Institutional Nature of the Patent System: Implications for Bioethical Decision-Making
14. Why People Give Information Freely: Internet Architecture and the Rebirth of Folkloric Culture

This book gives an overview of current topics in law and ethics in relation to intellectual property. It addresses practical issues encountered in everyday situations in politics, research and innovation, as well as some of the underlying theoretical concepts. In addition, it provides an insight into the process of international policy-making, showing the current problems in the area of intellectual property in science and research, highlighting changes in the fundamental understanding of common and private property and the possible implications and challenges for society and politics