[ecrea] INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN ASIA Conflicting Traditions

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN ASIA Conflicting Traditions
edited by PRADIP NINAN THOMAS and JAN SERVAES

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About the Book

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RIGHT-WRONG; LEGAL-ILLEGAL. Such simple binary 
notions cannot be used to assess issues related 
to intellectual property and communications. One 
of the key dilemmas in the field of intellectual 
property rights today is the need for a system 
that rewards innovation and creativity while 
encouraging the social availability and 
distribution of ideas in the public domain. And 
this is the balance that this volume sets out to 
strike. With the ownership of IP becoming a core 
feature of media/information industries and state 
policy, issues related to access to knowledge and 
its use have become a matter of critical concern. 
While trade regimes, the state and the core 
cultural and information industries have begun to 
advocate greater scope for a variety of knowledge 
enclosures, civil society is increasingly arguing 
for a people-centred vision of knowledge futures. 
This vision includes the need for equity-based 
and flexible licensing regimes; the legitimacy of 
local solutions to IP-related issues; support for 
cultural diversity; and access to knowledge based 
on need rather than the ability to pay for 
knowledge. The central argument of this volume is 
that since access to knowledge in a knowledge 
economy is a passport to a better quality of 
life, then its fair distribution and universal 
availability ought to become a standard norm. The 
articles in this volume explore the contested 
nature of the ownership of and access to 
knowledge and support it with illustrative case 
studies from the Asian region. Exhaustively 
discussed from the point of view of the dominant 
power interests as also the margins (or 
indigenous communities), this volume provides 
emerging solutions supportive of public domain.

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Table of Contents

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Preface
Introduction PRADIP THOMAS and JAN SERVAES
The Emerging Information Economy: An Overview ROBERTO VERZOLA
United States Trade Policy and the Reshaping of 
Intellectual Property Rights Protection in the 
APEC Region STEPHEN D McDOWELL and MOONKI HONG
Copyright and the Global Good? An Examination of 
the Public Interest in International Copyright Regimes SARA BANNERMAN
Copyright, Competition Policy and Prevention of 
Monopolistic Abuses in the TRIPS Agreement DAYA SHANKER
Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of New 
Technologies: Whose Knowledge? LEVI OBIJIOFOR
Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property RightsThe Interface KAMAL PURI
Learning to Love the Market: Copyright, Culture 
and China LUCY MONTGOMERY and MICHAEL KEANE
Chinas Efforts for International Cooperation in 
Copyright Protection YONGHUA ZHANG
Culture, Communication and the Meaning of 
Intellectual Property Rights in South Asia: A Critical Analysis BINOD C AGRAWAL
Uncommon Features: Interpreting IP Contestations in India PRADIP NINAN THOMAS
Australian Sport, Property Rights and the 
Emerging Information Monopoly RHONDA BREIT
Creative Commons: Accessing, Negotiating and 
Remixing Online Content BRIAN FITZGERALD
Alternative Intellectual Property Regimes in the 
Global Creative Economy TERRY FLEW, GREG HEARN and SUSANNA LEISTEN
IPR and Communications: Markets, Communities and 
the Public Domain PRADIP THOMAS and JAN SERVAES

Index

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About the Editors

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Pradip Ninan Thomas is Associate Professor, 
School of Journalism and Communication, 
University of Queensland, Australia. Jan Servaes 
is Professor and Head, School of Journalism and 
Communication, University of Queensland, Australia.


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2006 n 264 pages n Cloth: 0761934987

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