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The Development Agenda is the result of the recent campaign to ensure that the intellectual property treaty regime permits — and, indeed, empowers — developing countries to tailor their intellectual property laws as they deem necessary to promote development and serve the welfare of their citizens. The Agenda's adoption by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in September 2007 was an historic watershed for that UN agency, which has long viewed its mandate as the unabashed promotion of greater intellectual property rights throughout the world.
Written by some of the world's leading IP scholars, Neil W. Netanel has edited this compilation of articles in order to examine the Development Agenda and the broader issues it touches upon. Contributors include leading scholars from various disciplines, including economics, political science, and law, and from countries at various stages of development, including China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Nigeria, Egypt, and Israel, in addition to the US, Canada, and EU. They also include experts from NGO-think tanks, UNCTAD, and the two Brazilian diplomats who were the leading advocates of the Development Agenda's adoption.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1
Introduction: The WIPO Development Agenda and its Development Policy Context
The Development Agenda and the International IP Treaty Regime


Chapter 2
The Development Agenda at WIPO: Where Does it Stand?


Chapter 3
TRIPS 3.0: Policy Calibration and Innovation Displacement
The Development Agenda in Historical and Institutional Context


Chapter 4
The WIPO Development Agenda in a Historical and Political Context


Chapter 5
The Politics of Intellectual-Property Reform in Developing Countries: The Relevance of the World Intellectual Property Organization
The Development Agenda: Cautionary Notes from Two Directions


Chapter 6
History Lessons for the WIPO Development Agenda


Chapter 7
The WIPO Development Agenda: A Cautionary Note
Intellectual Property and Development: A Comparative Analysis


Chapter 8
What Direction Is The Wind Blowing? Protection of DRM in China


Chapter 9
Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rains?: Evidence from Domestic Innovation, Technology Transfers, and International Trade Post Patent Implementations in the
Period 1978-2002


Chapter 10
Historical Perspectives on Patent Systems in Economic Development
Access to Medicine


Chapter 11
Expanding Patent Rights in Pharmaceuticals: The Linkage Between Patents and Drug Registration


Chapter 12
Is Product Patent Protection Necessary to Spur Innovation in Developing Countries? R&D by Indian Pharmaceutical Companies after TRIPS


Chapter 13
IPRs and Technological Development in Pharmaceuticals: Who is Patenting What in Brazil after the TRIPS?
Cultural Industries


Chapter 14
The Production of Knowledge, Innovation and IP in Developing Countries: Creative Industries and the Development Agenda


Chapter 15
Arab Musiconomics, Culture, Copyright and the Commons


Chapter 16
Michael D. Birnhack, Trading Copyright: Global Pressure on Local Culture
Industry Structure, Innovation and Access


Chapter 17
Antitrust, Patents, and Developing Nations


Chapter 18
Leonardo Burlamaqui, Innovation, Competition Policies and Intellectual Property: An Evolutionary Perspective and its Policy Implications
Intellectual Property and Developing Country Citizens' Freedom


Chapter 19
Intellectual Property and Development as Freedom


Chapter 20
Contours of an International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions