Doern, G. Bruce, Sharaput, Markus
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Defining and regulating 'intellectual property' is a growing industry for information brokers, economists, and the legal profession. While other autho
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rs have documented the intellectual property (IP) market and its laws (copyright, patents, and trademarks), Bruce Doern and Markus Sharaput are the first Canadian political scientists to provide an integrated political and institutional analysis. The authors delve into the politics of big business and protectionism, lobbies in the healthcare industry, the significance of an emerging IP framework, pressures for equitable dissemination, and internal pressures within government, all of which influence Canada's intellectual policy and implementation.
Among the conclusions advanced by Doern and Sharaput is that the main impetus for change in Canada has come ultimately from American corporate and political forces seeking to strengthen IP protection at the expense of IP dissemination. The authors show that although such pressures were initially resisted they became an entrenched part of the Canadian IP debate. Intellectual property user and dissemination-oriented interests are emerging in new ways that will undoubtedly change the politics of intellectual property in the first decade of the next century.
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