INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION IN THE NORTH/SOUTH DIVIDE

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION IN THE NORTH/SOUTH DIVIDE
Vandana Shiva

ISBN 9789041198471
Kluwer Law International

Western IPR regimes have emerged as major instruments of North – South inequality. Not only do they block technology transfer, they facilitate piracy of the indigenous knowledge and biodiversity of Third World countries. They could, if not revised and reviewed, make northern countries monopoly owners of knowledge including knowledge that has evolved cumulatively and collectively in indigenous cultures, selling it at high cost to already impoverished and indebted countries of the South, pushing them further into poverty and debt.