Rethinking Copyright for Sustainable Human Development

Rethinking Copyright for Sustainable Human Development
Title Rethinking Copyright for Sustainable Human Development PDF eBook
Author Sileshi Bedasie Hirko
Publisher Routledge
Pages 182
Release 2021-11-25
Genre Law
ISBN 1000477339

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This book explores the interface between copyright and higher education, and their complementarities for the advancement of sustainable human development. In its broader sense, the concept of human development is noted as a set of freedoms and human capabilities that are essential for human flourishing. Adopting a rights-based human development and capability approach (HDCA), this book primarily examines the relevant policy and legal flexibilities under the existing international copyright system, and their implications for access to knowledge required for creative innovation and higher education. Exploring the interfaces between copyright and higher education, this book argues that an unbalanced and restrictive copyright system impedes reasonable access to knowledge, and stifles creative and learning freedoms or capabilities. In effect, a restrictive copyright system results in serious ramifications for sustainable human development. In view of its findings, this book underscores the need for rethinking copyright and reframing its relevant flexibilities as users' rights that are vital for promoting creative and learning capabilities towards sustainable human development. Further, the book emphasizes the complementarities between copyright and higher education, and their joint roles for sustainable human development. Given its application of the HDCA to explore ranges of interlinked topics, this book will be of a great interest to researchers across the fields of intellectual property law, innovation, global development, human rights, and higher education.

Copyright and Tertiary Education Regimes in Ethiopia

Copyright and Tertiary Education Regimes in Ethiopia
Title Copyright and Tertiary Education Regimes in Ethiopia PDF eBook
Author Sileshi Bedasie Hirko
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 262
Release 2023-01-16
Genre Education
ISBN 303117237X

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This book explores the interlinkages between copyright and tertiary education regimes, and their complementary roles for sustainable human development. Emphasizing issues that are not addressed in-depth in the existing works, this book employs a new theoretical perspective in order to inform the exploration of the interlinkages through the lens of human development. To this effect, the book adopts the capabilities approach (CA) as an inclusive development framework that is suitable for examining the interfaces among copyright, tertiary education, and human development in Ethiopia.

The Right to Research in Africa

The Right to Research in Africa
Title The Right to Research in Africa PDF eBook
Author Desmond Oriakhogba
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 118
Release 2023-07-04
Genre Law
ISBN 3031332822

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This book formulates a human right to research in Africa based on an in-depth examination of the available international and regional human rights instruments as well as those relevant to the national contexts of African countries. The imbalances in the African copyright ecosystem regarding access to information for research and education became painfully apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. African libraries and knowledge curators found themselves ill-equipped to perform their role of enabling access to information. As teaching, learning and research are increasingly done on digital platforms, learners and researchers continue to grapple with the challenges of accessing materials owing largely to the protection of these resources under copyright law. Access to information, which is needed in order to exercise the right to science and culture, faces a significant challenge posed by the exercising of exclusive rights by copyright owners without a legal mechanism that properly balances copyright from a human rights perspective. To achieve such a balance, there is an urgent need to revise the African copyright system from the perspective of human rights law. Can it be done by establishing a human right to research? In view of the existing broad freedom of expression, and the right to science and culture, education, and property in global, national and regional human rights regimes, is a specific right to research in Africa necessary and justifiable? If so, what should its minimum core components be? Are there international and national regimes already in place that could support the formulation of a human right to research in Africa? This book offers a valuable resource for law- and policymakers in the fields of copyright and human rights, judges, lawyers, public interest groups, researchers and students, librarians and authors, as well as the general public.

Intellectual Property Rights in the Post Pandemic World

Intellectual Property Rights in the Post Pandemic World
Title Intellectual Property Rights in the Post Pandemic World PDF eBook
Author Taina Pihlajarinne
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 377
Release 2023-12-11
Genre Law
ISBN 1803922745

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The drastic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted many of society’s systemic inequalities. In this timely and prescient book, Taina Pihlajarinne, Jukka Tapio Mähönen and Pratyush Nath Upreti explore the importance of intellectual property rights (IPRs) post pandemic and argue for a pressing revision of the current IPR system to build a more globally sustainable and just regime.

Structural Transformation and Sustainable Development in the Global South

Structural Transformation and Sustainable Development in the Global South
Title Structural Transformation and Sustainable Development in the Global South PDF eBook
Author Seung Jin Baek
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 149
Release 2021-12-24
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1000551156

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This book investigates the relationship between sustainable development and structural transformation within international development policy. On the one hand, sustainable development is promoted as a multi-dimensional concept for achieving environmentally and socially responsible change. On the other hand, structural transformation refers to a sustained period of growth in living standards and incomes that brings sectoral change. For some, these two objectives seem at odds with each other, but this book argues that incorporating environmental initiatives into structural transformation goals in lower-income countries actually results in better results than strategies prioritising economic growth. Drawing on extensive structural equation modelling and original analysis, the book presents an innovative inclusive sustainable development framework to demonstrate the benefits of a more integrated approach to development planning, aiming for structural transformation in line with inclusive sustainable development principles. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of global development, and to policymakers within government and development organizations.

The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals

The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals
Title The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals PDF eBook
Author Matthew Rimmer
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 703
Release 2024-02-12
Genre Law
ISBN 180392523X

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Complex geopolitical debate surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) in advancing and achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Summarising and advancing this discourse, this prescient Companion is a thorough examination of how IP law interacts, influences and impacts each of the seventeen SDGs.

Leadership and Organisational Culture in Development

Leadership and Organisational Culture in Development
Title Leadership and Organisational Culture in Development PDF eBook
Author Violeta Schubert
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 222
Release 2022-07-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000615375

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This book uses organisational theory to explore how power and leadership operate in development organisations in different contexts and at different levels. Culture as a tool for enacting change is of particular importance within organisational and leadership analysis but often limiting. Notions of exceptionalism within the development sector mean that lessons from other organisational contexts are often disregarded or deemed irrelevant. In examining the way that culture operates in organisational and leadership analysis and in development thinking and approaches, the book invites closer attention to modes of organising and leading. The book examines development exceptionalism and the leadership fetishism that it evokes as a panacea for addressing disorder and crisis. The term organisationalism is deployed to capture the endeavours to control and manage, produce and reproduce organisation, and the manifestations, responses and imprints of ‘seeing like an organisation’. The modes and manifestations of organisationalism are especially notable in times of crisis and disorder, accusations of wrongdoings, bad culture and bad leadership. This book makes an important contribution to debates on development exceptionalism and leadership and as such will be of interest to researchers in development studies and management studies and related disciplines across sociology, politics and global governance.