List of contributors

vii

Preface

ix

pt. I

SETTING THE STAGE: THE LAW AND ITS TRENDS

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

pt. II

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS

5.

Introduction / Jerzy Koopman

99

Copyright Law and Patent Law: to its Recognition - Differing Views

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

pt. III

HUMAN RIGHTS AS RESTRICTIONS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

10.

Introduction / Lucky Belder

175

Copyright Law and Patent Law: to its Enforcement - Differing Views

11.

A practical analysis of the human rights paradox in intellectual property law: Russian Roulette / 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