Intellectual property's other: a new social–natural contract for the advancement of access to clean water and sanitation

Jessica C. Lai

Chapter 9 in The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2024, pp 224-242 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Intellectual property is premised on a social contract that states that society is willing to put up with an artificial reduction in competition in exchange for creation and knowledge about that creation. This is anthropocentric, triangulating individuals, society and intellectual property. But what about nature? This chapter examines how there could be natural contracts, the ways in which this could affect intellectual property law, including potentially allowing non-Western and Global South perspectives to undergird intellectual property, and whether this could improve access to clean water and sanitation.

Keywords: Development Studies; Law - Academic; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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