Overview
- Explores the legal, economic and political context for the debate about intellectual property rights for traditional knowledge and genetic resources
- Investigates the current flashpoints: the battle between Monsanto and Percy Schmeiser over patented seeds, the dispute over coexistence of GM and organic production; and the ownership and control of human genetic materials
- Critically analyses the theory and practice of access and benefits sharing efforts around the world
Part of the book series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF, volume 11)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Access and Benefits Sharing in Context
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Sharing the Benefits of Inventions, Pgrs and Traditional Knowledge
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Implementing Access and Benefits Sharing
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Access and Benefit Sharing in the New Millennium
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About this book
There is a veritable gold rush mentality in the life science world as scientists, entrepreneurs and multinationals are staking claims to the ‘code of life’ embodied in the world’s current stock of plants, animals, microbes and human populations.
This edited volume explores the legal, economic and political context for the debate about intellectual property rights for traditional knowledge and genetic resources and critically analyses the theory and practice of access and benefits sharing efforts around the world. The book also investigates the current flashpoints – the David and Goliath battle between Monsanto and Percy Schmeiser over farmers’ rights; the dispute over coexistence of GM and organic production; and the ownership and control of human genetic materials stored in human gene banks around the world.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This edited book consists of ten chapters and is volume 11 in the series entitled The International Library of Environment, Agriculture and Food Ethics. … It provides a useful overview of the evolution of intellectual property rights for plant technologies and products … . This book … provides varied views about access to and benefits from genetic technologies and materials. All who have an interest in biodiversity conservation, genetic innovations and the commercialization of genetic material … are likely to find this book worthwhile reading." (Clem Tisdell, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 22, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Accessing and Sharing the Benefits of the Genomics Revolution
Editors: W.B. Peter, Chika B. Onwuekwe
Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5822-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5821-9Published: 24 July 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7449-2Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5822-6Published: 09 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1570-3010
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 214
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Ethics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History