Book Details
Orange Code:91883
Paperback:242 pages
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Sections:
1. Introduction2. Structure, agents, and institutions3. US intellectual property rights in historical perspective4. The domestic origins of a trade-based approach to intellectual property5. The Intellectual Property Committee and transnational mobilization6. Life after TRIPS: aggression and opposition7. Conclusion: structured agency revisited
Description:
Susan Sell's book reveals how power in international politics is increasingly exercised by private interests rather than governments. In 1994 the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted the Agreement in Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which dictated to states how they should regulate the protection of intellectual property. This book argues that TRIPS resulted from lobbying by powerful multinational corporations who wished to mould international law to protect their markets.
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