Papers from a conference held at Canada House in London, England. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Human rights implications of patenting biotechnological knowledge / Jerzy Koopman. New innovation frontier? : intellectual property and the European Court of Human Rights / Larry Helfer -- Challenges to the development of a human-rights framework for intellectual property / Peter Yu -- Constitutional dimension of intellectual property / Christophe Geiger -- Intellectual property rights and human rights : coinciding and cooperating / Estelle Derclaye -- Proportionality and balancing within the objectives for intellectual property protection / Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan -- Copyright (and other intellectual property rights) as a human right / Paul Torremans -- Copyright and freedom of expression in Canada / Ysolde Gendreau -- Free speech benefits of fair dealing defences / Patrick Masiyakurima -- Copyright law reform through a human rights lens / Graeme Austin and Amy Zavidow -- Conflict between the human right to education and copyright / Sharon Foster -- Is there a right to an immoral trade mark? / Jonathan Griffiths -- Trade marks and human rights / Andreas Ramathian -- Some cultural narrative themes and variations in the common law / Catherine Ng -- Geographical indications and human rights / Dev Gangjee -- Recapturing liberated information : the relationship between the United Kingdom's Freedom of Information Act 2000 and private law restraints on disclosure / Jonathan Griffiths -- 'Holding the line' : the relationship between the public interest and remedies granted or refused, be it for breach of confidence or copyright / Alison Firth -- Privacy, confidentiality and property / Peter Jaffey -- Right of privacy for corporations? / Tanya Aplin -- Research on human embryos and stem cells : weaving ethical and religious concerns into the framework of patent law in Malaysia / Ida Madieha Bt. Abdul Ghani Azmi -- Human rights implications of patenting biotechnological knowledge / Jerzy Koopman.
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