Intellectual Property: Commodification and Its Discontents

Virginia Brown-Keyder

Chapter 8 in Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century, 2007, pp 155-170 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Intellectual property (IP) rights—property rights created through patent, copyright, and trademark law—have become the driving force not only of the U.S. economy, but also of U.S. international relations in general. IP has become the backbone of a world of “market states” held together by a growing string of free trade agreements imposed through U.S. economic might on an increasingly reluctant world.

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Food Sovereignty; Intellectual Property Protection; Compulsory License; World Intellectual Property Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230607187_9

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