Publisher Description

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on "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 labour, they would do themselves a huge favour by reading Lea Shaver's excellent book." Pam Samuelson, Professor Univeristy of California, Berkeley"This is essential reading for anyone who cares about one of the most important human rights issues of the century: access to knowledge." Madhavi Sunder, Professor of Law, University of California DavisThis volume features four chapters addressing the current issues facing intellectual property, innovation and development policy in Brazil. Each chapter is authored by legal scholars affiliated to the Fundação Getulio Vargas law schools in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Each chapter examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge in Brazil. These include: exceptions and limitations to copyright, free software and open business models, patent reform and access to medicines, and open innovation in the biotechnology sector.

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Explores how IPR, copyrights and patents impact the fast growing economy of Brazil Contains grass roots information not available elsewhere Allows Brazilians to tell their own stories of success Has set standards for the whole of the developing world

Author Biography

Lea Shaver is an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Introduction; From Free Software to Free Culture: The Emergence of Open Business; Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright in Brazil: A Call for Reform; Biotechnology in Brazil: Promoting open innovation; Access to Medicines: Pharmaceutical Patents and the Right to Health.

Review

'A meticulously researched book' * Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School *
'Essential reading' * Michael Sunder, University of California *

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Access to Knowledge in Brazil addresses the issues currently facing intellectual property and innovation in the context of developing countries. This book explores how copyrights and patents have influenced the rapidly growing economy of Brazil. This volume contains grassroots perspective sand new research, which is not available anywhere else.

Long Description

Each chapter of this book is written by legal scholars affiliated to the Fundacao Getulio Vargas law schools in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro and examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge in Brazil. These include: exceptions and limitations to copyright, free software and open business models, patent reform and access to medicines, and open innovation in the biotechnology sector. ..'In this illuminating book, Brazilians tell their own stories of their recent skirmishes with stringent international patent and copyright standards. Their essays evidence a nascent social movement for access to knowledge in Latin America and beyond. This is essential reading for anyone who cares about one of the most important human rights issues of the century: access to knowledge itself. ' Madhavi Sunder, Professor of Law, University of California Davis..

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This is essential reading for anyone who cares about one of the most important human rights issues of the century: access to knowledge.

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Addresses the current issues facing intellectual property, innovation and development policy in Brazil.

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