Thanks to Peter Yu for sending a link to the current issue of the WIPO Journal, which is dedicated to the theme of IP and development. Many of the articles look of interest to readers of the infojustice blog. The contents are:
Five Decades of Intellectual Property and Global Development (Peter K. Yu); Development and International Copyright: A History (Sara Bannerman); Prioritising Human Development in African Intellectual Property Law (J. Janewa OseiTutu); Decolonising Intellectual Property Law in Pursuit of Africa’s Development (Caroline B. Ncube); Drugs, Drugs Everywhere but Just Not for the Poor (Srividhya Ragavan); The Never-ending Story of Access to Medicines (Dhanay M. Cadillo Chandler); Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Development (Dalindyebo Shabalala); Fundamental Rights, Development and Cultural Inclusion: The Marrakesh Treaty in Brazil (Allan Rocha de Souza); Patent as a Development Target? Dilemma of China’s Patent-Indicated Innovation Incentive Strategy (Song Hongsong); Intellectual Property and Development: Patents, Mass Innovation and the Xiaokang Society (Phoebe Li); Fine-tuning the Intellectual Property Approaches to Fostering Open Science: Some Insights from India (Arul George Scaria and Rishika Rangarajan); The Need for a Pluralist Approach to the Link between Intellectual Property and Development: A Pacific Island Case Study (Miranda Forsyth; and The Reform of Educational Exceptions in the UAE Copyright Law to Suit Development
Goals (Rami Olwan).