PART I SETTING THE STAGE: THE LAW AND ITS TRENDS 3
1 General introduction&Willem Grosheide 3
2 Human rights law status report&Cees Flinterman 37
3 Expansion and convergence in copyright law&Madeleine de Cock Buning 47
4 Patents and human rights: where is the paradox?&Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss 72
PART Ⅱ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS 99
5 Introduction&Jerzy Koopman 99
Copyright Law and Patent Law: to its Recognition - Differing Views 105
6 Is copyright fit for the 21st century? No!&Joost Smiers 105
7 Intellectual property rights, human rights and the right to health&Duncan Matthews 118
8 On patents and human rights&Jan Brinkhof 140
9 Current patent laws cannot claim the backing of human rights&Wendy J. Gordon 155
PART Ⅲ HUMAN RIGHTS AS RESTRICTIONS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS 175
10 Introduction&Lucky Belder 175
Copyright Law and Patent Law: to its Enforcement - Differing Views 183
11 A practical analysis of the human rights paradox in intellectual property law: Russian Roulette&Charlotte Waelde and Abbe E.L. Brown 183
12 Human rights' limitations in patent law&Geertrui Van Overwalle 236
13 Human rights as a constraint on intellectual property rights:the case of patent and plant variety protection rights, genetic resources and traditional knowledge&Charles R. McManis 272
14 A comment on 'Human rights as a constraint on intellectual property rights: the case of patent and plant variety protection rights, genetic resources and traditional knowledge'&Martin J. Adelman 300
Index 305