Access to knowledge in the age of intellectual property / edited by Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski.

New York : Zone Books, 2010.

646 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Access to knowledge : a conceptual genealogy / Amy Kapczynski -- Access to knowledge as a field of activism / Gaëlle Krikorian -- The emergence of the A2K movement : reminiscences and reflections of a developing-country delegate / Ahmed Abel Latif -- The revised drug strategy : access to essential medicines, intellectual property, and the World Health Organization / Ellen 't Hoen -- The Doha declaration on TRIPS and public health : an impetus for access to medicines / Sangeeta Shashikant -- An uncertain victory : the 205 rejection of software patents by the European Parliament / Philippe Aigrain -- A2K at WIPO : the development agenda and the debate on the proposed broadcasting treaty / Viviana Muñoz Tellez ans Sisule F. Musungu -- "IP world"--made by TNC Inc. / Peter Drahos -- The idea of access to knowledge and the information commons : long-term trends and basic elements / Yochai Benkler -- Access to knowledge : the case of indigenous and traditional knowledge / Carlos M. Correa -- Undermining abundance : counterproductive uses of technology and law in nature, agriculture, and the information sector / Roberto Verzola -- The man who mistook his wife for a book / Lawrence Liang -- Free-trade agreements and neoliberalsim : how to derail the political rationales that impose strong intellectual property protection / Gaëlle Krikorian -- Information/knowledge in the global society of control : A2K theory and the postcolonial commons / Jeffrey Atteberry -- Beyond representation : the figure of the pirate / Lawrence Liang -- Virtual roundtable on A2K politics / Amy Kapczynski and Gaëlle Krikorian, with Onno Purbo ... [et al.] -- A comparison of A2K movements : from medicines to farmers / Susan K. Sell -- TRIPS flexibilities : the scope of patentability and oppositions to patents in India / Chan Park and Leena Menghaney -- TRIPS flexibilities in Thailand : between law and politics / Jiraporn Limpananont and Kannikar Kijtiwatchakul -- Using competition law to promote access to knowledge / Sean M. Flynn -- Open-access publishing : from principles to practice / Manon A. Ress -- the global politics of interoperability / Laura DeNardis -- Back to balance : limits and exceptions to copyright / Vera Franz -- New medicines and vaccines : access, incentives to investment, and freedom to innovate / Spring Gombe and James Love -- Virtual roundtable on A2K strategies : interventions and dilemmas / Amy Kapczynski and Gaëlle Krikorian, with Harini Amarasuriya ... [et al.] -- Interview with Yann Moulier Boutang / Gaëlle Krikorian -- Nollywood : how it works--a conversation with Charles Igwe / Achal Prabhala -- A copyright thriller versus a vision of a digital renaissance / Sarah Deutsch -- Social mutations in the future / Gaëlle Krikorian -- The future of intellectual property and access to medicine / Eloan dos Santos Pinheiro -- Options and alternatives to current copyright regimes and practices / Hala Essalmawi -- The golden touch and the miracle of the loaves / Roberto Verzola.