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  • 3 - IP Rights and Human Rights

  • from Part I - The Right to Science, Then
  • Edited by Helle Porsdam, University of Copenhagen, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, University of Copenhagen
  • Book:
    The Right to Science
    Published online:
    25 November 2021
    Print publication:
    02 December 2021, pp 54-75
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    Aurora Plomer investigates how human rights have been a critical counterweight to the social and economic costs of the global extension of intellectual property (IP) rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides the foundational values which are at the heart of this critique. Plomer retraces the origins and normative foundations of the rights of authors and inventors in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She argues against recent scholarship which questions the relevance of human rights to current debates about IP rights, shows how this scholarship conflates IP rights with human rights, and demonstrates why human rights were never intended to be equated with IP rights.  Resetting the history of human rights and IP rights reveals why human rights continue to have a meaningful role to play in protecting public goods and addressing the grave injustices caused by the global extension of IP rights today.