Intellectual Property and Human Rights: A Paradox

摘要

This edited collection is yet another contribution to the growing debate on the relationship between intellectual property and human rights. For many years there was little interest in the topic and we seemed to be dealing with two separate disciplines. If anything, copyright lawyers would argue that their discipline had internalised the human rights argument. When deciding the scope of copyright protection the legislature had taken due account of issues such as freedom of expression and access to information. Patents and other industrial property rights seemed to have no interaction at all with intellectual property.