Intellectual Property Rights & Human Rights Reading Room

UNESCO Report on “Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies: A Survey”
Paris, 2007
Prepared by Mary Rundle and Chis Conway (Geneva Net Dialogue)
“Impact of Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights”
IP Justice Slides at Shell Technology Futures
By Robin Gross, February 2007, Bangalore, India (.ppt)
 
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Comprehensive resource for articles and analysis on issues touching business and human rights (Partnership with Amnesty International Business Groups & leading academic institutions)
 
3-D Policy Anaysis of CESCR General Comment 17 on IPR & Human Rights
By 3-D, October 2006
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ General Comment No. 17 on Protection of Authors’ Moral and Material Interests – Intellectual Property and Human Rights: Is the Distinction Clear Now? An assessment of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ General Comment No. 17 (2005), October 2006
In EnglishIn Spanish
 
“Reconceptualizing IP Interests in a Human Rights Framework”
By Peter K. Yu, Michigan State University College of Law
MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-01
US Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, 2007
 
“The International Enclosure Movement”
By Peter K. Yu, Michigan State University College of Law
MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 03-22
Indiana Law Journal, Vol 82, Winter 2007
 
“Intellectual Property, Development and Human Rights – How Human Rights Can Support Proposals for a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Develpment Agenda”
By 3D, February 2006
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“Tragedy of the Commons: IPR in the Digital Age”
By Robin D. Gross, published by MIT Press, 2006
 
3D In-Depth Study on IPR and Human Rights
By 3D, November 2005
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Practical guide to the WTO
By 3D, 2004
 
Rights In Basic Information
By Peter Jaszi, UNCTAD-ICTSD 2004
 
Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Conflict or Co-existance?
By Laurence Helfer 2004
 
Report on Science and Intellectual Property Rights
AAAS 2004
 
“Human Rights Ignored as Big Business Dominates in Geneva”
IP Justice Report from World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
By Robin D. Gross, December 2003
 
IP Justice Slides from Speech at Geneva WSIS (ppt)
By Robin D. Gross, December 2003