At the End of Property: Patents, Plants and the Crisis of Propertization

Name: At the End of Property: Patents, Plants and the Crisis of Propertization
Brand: Bristol University Press
SKU: 9781529233667
Price: 1130.50 HKD
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Author: Veit Braun
ISBN: 9781529233667

By Veit Braun

Bristol University Press June 2024

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781529233667
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication: June 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Recent decades have witnessed the creation of new types of property systems, ranging from data ownership to national control over genetic resources. This trend has significant implications for wealth distribution and our understanding of who can own what.

This book explores the idea of ownership in the realm of plant breeding, revealing how plants have been legally and materially transformed into property. It highlights the controversial aspects of turning seeds, plants and genes into property and how this endangers the viability of the seed industry.

Examining ownership not simply as a legal concept, but as a bundle of laws, practices and technologies, this is a valuable contribution that will interest scholars of intellectual property studies, the anthropology of markets, science and technology studies and related fields.

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Introduction: 2.
From rights to scripts: Articulating property: 3.
Property and the market: 4.
Re-inventing plants: 5.
The values of Patents: 6.
Too much property: 7.
At the end of property