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Intellectual Property Rights: Excluding other rights of other people [1]

This article interrogates the claims of intellectual property to be a right. Drawing on the political theory of rights, it argues that information, ideas and knowledge fail to meet the basic test of rights and intellectual property right prevents those who do not own it from accessing and exercising their own diverse rights.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Rajshree Chandra [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
44
31
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Tags:
Agriculture [4], Health [5], Farmers [6], Traditional Knowledge [7], Drugs [8], Drug Industry [9], Food Safety [10], Benefit Sharing [11], GMOs [12], Science And Technology [13], Patents [14], Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) [15], Information [16]
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