Independent External Review of WIPO Technical Assistance in the Area of Cooperation for Development, WIPO: Geneva

Birkbeck, Carolyn Deere; Roca, Santiago

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2195872

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“…Besides a series of commissioned studies, WIPO adopted no fewer than 45 recommendations that are intended to contribute to a greater coherence between IP policy and development policy . Among these is a re‐orientation of technical assistance and capacity building programs that shall no longer be committed solely to the universal expansion narrative (critical Deere Birkbeck & Roca, ; more optimistic Pederson, , p. 202 [“WIPO has already distanced itself considerably from the “maximalist rights culture” that was said to have dominated the organization when the Agenda was first adopted”. ]).…”

Section: The Ip Expansion Narrative In Historical Perspectivementioning

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Intellectual property and development—narratives and their empirical validity

Peukert

2017

World Intellectual Property

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The article gives an overview of the relationship between intellectual property (IP) and development. The first section shows that the dominant assumption in the history of IP was that IP rights are generally favorable to socio‐economic progress. The second section explains that economic and historical research has proven this linear expansionist narrative to be untenable. In doing so, the article compares the arguments of IP optimists with counterarguments of IP pessimists in the light of empirical studies. The final section addresses the consequences of these findings for the future of the international IP system.

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Section: The Ip Expansion Narrative In Historical Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%