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Normative Consideration of A2K in the Space between Intellectual Property and Human Rights

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Title Normative Consideration of A2K in the Space between Intellectual Property and Human Rights
 
Creator Baxi, Mili Joy
 
Subject Access to Knowledge
Intellectual Property Law
Human Rights Law
 
Description 109-119
In the long-running tensions between Human Rights Law (HRL) and Intellectual Property Rights Law (IPR), the author
is introducing the conceptual placement of Access to knowledge (A2K) movements. Access to knowledge (A2K) is the ‘new
politics of intellectual property’ that seeks to fundamentally realign and reform intellectual property law. It is difficult to
draw a commonality between an activist protesting for waiving patents on HIV+ medicine and Covid-19 vaccines and a
subsistence farmer or a software programmer. A2K politics offers a perfect balance of freedom and control that the IP and
HR debate are trying to find. This analysis is relevant because it seeks to investigate two conceptions; one is to understand
the relevance of the access to knowledge movements in the IPR - Human rights debate. There is no clear discussion wherein
normative examination of this kind has been undertaken. Second is, viewing the solutions to human rights issues caused by
IP or caused to due scarcity or governance issues, resolved through IP. Although the concept draws from existing debates, it
departs on some conceptual level from the available framework on IP and human rights.
 
Date 2024-04-04T11:02:03Z
2024-04-04T11:02:03Z
2024-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1076 (Online); 0971-7544 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63694
https://doi.org/10.56042/jipr.v29i2.869
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source JIPR Vol.29(2) [March 2024]