Title: Property rights, indigenous people and the developing world : issues from aboriginal entitlement to intellectual ownership rights /
Authors: Lea, David, 1940-
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Indigenous peoples Legal status, laws, etc.; Right of property.; Land titles.; Intellectual property (International law)
Abstract: "This work offers an analysis of the Western formal system of private property and its moral justification and explains the relevance of the institution to particular current issues that face aboriginal peoples and the developing world."--Jacket.
Contents: Aboriginal entitlement and conservative theory -- Individual autonomy, group self-determination and the assimilation of indigenous cultures -- Shareholder wealth maximization, multinational corporations and the developing world -- Tully and de Soto on uniformity and diversity -- Custom as law -- Papua New Guinea and the legal methods for maintaining customary land tenure -- Customary land tenure in Fiji: a questionable colonial legacy -- The expansion and restructuring of intellectual property and its implications for the developing world -- The myth of free markets: intellectual property the IT industry, and market freedom in the global arena -- From the Wright Brothers to Microsoft: issues in the moral grounding of intellectual property rights -- A delicate balance: the right to health care, IP rights in pharmaceuticals and TRIPS compliance -- Rights and genetic material in agriculture and human research: two forms of biopiracy?