Access to Knowledge in Brazil

Lea Shaver

“Brazil is one of the world's most productive crucibles for new ideas and practices in innovation and collaboration. This meticulously researched book provides a sweeping tour of the issues arising form that leadership.”—Jonathan Zittrain, Professor, Harvard Law School

"As policy makers around the world grapple with how to configure their intellectual property policies to promote innovation and economic growth, as well as public access to the fruits of intellectual labor, they would do themselves a huge favor by reading Lea Shaver's excellent book." —Pam Samuelson, Professor University of California, Berkeley

$75/Hardcover
Pub Date: Feb 2010
EAN: 9781849660099

Access to Knowledge in Egypt

Nagla Rizk, Lea Shaver

This volume features five chapters on current issues facing intellectual property, innovation and development policy from the Egyptian perspective. These include: information and communications technology for development, copyright and comparative business models in music, free and open source software, patent reform and access to medicines, and the role of the Egyptian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally and domestically.   Together these chapters offer an overview of the challenges and opportunities facing efforts to promote access to knowledge. Combining both theoretical and pragmatic approaches, the work will be of interest to scholars and practitioners dealing with intellectual property and innovation property the world over.

“This book is an important contribution to recovering a nuanced, contextually aware view of access to knowledge and global knowledge governance.”—Yochaie Benkler, Harvard Law School

"This is a 'must read' for scholars and practitioners interested in economic development, cultural production and access to knowledge." —Susan Sell, George Washington University

$75/Hardcover
Pub Date: Feb 2010
EAN: 9781849660082

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