• ISBN13: 9780198089117
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Business Management
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: January 1, 2012
• Pages: 400
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: Reprint ed.
• Item Weight: 449 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Business & Financial and Intellectual Property / General

The book critically analyzes the nature and scope of intellectual property rights using three different approaches: the philosophical, the empirical, and the theoretical. It studies the different justifications usually put forward in favour of protecting intellectual property rights, and shows how such rights come into conflict with other rights in society. The volume also discusses their benefits and drawbacks with the help of case studies. The author contends that rights can and should be 'structured in a lexical order of priority where rights which are linked to survival strategies ought to have enough legal teeth to trump rights which are more in the nature of economic entitlements, like intellectual property rights are'.

Rajshree Chandra is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi.