• Interactions between science, technology and society: an introduction
• Rights claims in digital media
• Legal controversies in digital media
• Rights claims in the biosciences
• Legal controversies in the biosciences
• Final remarks.

The volume is devoted to the relevant problems in the legal sphere, created and generated by recent advances in science and technology. In particular, it investigates a series of cutting-edge contemporary and controversial case-studies where scientific and technological issues intersect with individual legal rights. The book addresses challenging topics at the intersection of communication technologies and biotech innovations such as freedom of expression, right to health, knowledge production, Internet content regulation, accessibility and freedom of scientific research.
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• Foreword / Kenneth A. Bamberger
• Lost in translation : legality, regulatory margins, and technological management / Roger Brownsword
• From preemption to circumvention : if technology regulates, why do we need regulation (and vice versa)? / Helen Nissenbaum
• Seeing the forests and the trees : technological and regulatory impediments for global carbon monitoring / Molly K. Macauley & Nathan Richardson
• Regulating privacy by design / Ira S. Rubinstein.

• Introduction
• The institutions and actors of international intellectual property
• The major instruments of international intellectual property
• Key concepts of international intellectual property
• The current norms of international intellectual property
• Key issues in international intellectual property
• Final thoughts.

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars.This authoritative introduction provides a detailed overview of the complexities of the international intellectual property regime, and the ways in which it operates. The authors cover the key international institutions and agreements that regulate and inform intellectual property at an international level such as the TRIPS Agreement, WIPO, WTO, the Paris Convention, and the Berne Convention. The book serves as a platform to understand and contextualise policy discussions on topics such as public health, Internet regulation, and regional and bilateral trade treaties. Key features include: * Accessible and carefully summarized overview of the field* Comprehensive and up-to-date review of all major international intellectual property institutions and instruments* Introduces current issues within international IP negotiations* Provides tools to analyse the history and possible future development of international IP norms. Students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners of intellectual property will find this book to be an invaluable resource in gaining an understanding of the international rules and context in which both domestic and international IP policy issues should be understood.
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• Introduction : the challenges of oversight for emerging technologies / Kenneth W. Abbott
• The dynamics of emerging technology systems / Braden Allenby
• Emerging technology governance / Gregory N. Mandel
• An integrated framework for governing emerging technologies such as nanotechnology and synthetic biology / LeRoy Padddock and Molly Masterton
• The role of adaptation in the governance of emerging technologies / Marc A. Saner
• Integrating technology assessment into government technology policy / Timothy F. Malloy
• Governing the governance of emerging technologies / Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach
• The hare and the tortoise : an Australian Perspective on regulating new technologies and their products and processes / Diana M. Bowman
• Properly paced? : examining the past and present governance of GMOs in the United States / Jennifer Kuzma
• Innovative governance schemes for molecular diagnogtics / Rachel A. Lindor and Gary E. Marchant
• Network security agreements : communications technology governance by other means / Joshua W. Abbott
• Robust offshore risk regulation : an assessment of US, UK and Norwegian approaches / Preben H. Lindøe, Michael Baram and John Paterson
• Conclusion : emerging governance for emergent technologies / Gary E. Marchant.

Emerging technologies create challenges for traditional regulatory approaches. The contributors to this book - leading scholars in law, innovation, and technology - address the need for new governance methods and models. The unique characteristics of emerging technologies - their diverse applications, the myriad concerns raised by new technologies, the need for public engagement, and the issue of effective coordination between governance players - create the need for new governance approaches. The authors identify innovative new methods of governance, taking into account an environment where changes in technologies can out-pace the corresponding regulatory frameworks. Scholars of technology, science and innovation will find this book to be an enlightening read, as will lawyers, policymakers and think-tanks working within the emerging technologies arena.
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• Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Intangible Economy 3. Patent Information and Corporate Credit Ratings: An Empirical Study of Patent Valuation by Credit Rating Agencies 4. IPR Management and Company Valuation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Exploratory Study 5. IPR Management, Corporate Disclosures, and Stock Market Valuations in the Pharmaceutical Industry 6. Towards Forward-looking Financial Reporting Bibliography Appendix Index.
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Following the transition of industrial nations to knowledge economies, the financing of technological innovation has become a central issue in public policy, corporate finance and business management. This detailed book examines the role of intellectual property rights in facilitating the financing of technological innovation as well as the role of policy makers, investors and managers in this process. The book's central finding is that public policy plays a key role in promoting the corporate disclosure of intellectual property-related information to enhance the efficiency of capital markets. This not only reduces the costs of capital for technology-driven firms but ultimately spurs innovation and economic growth. Intellectual Property Rights and the Financing of Technological Innovation will strongly appeal to research students and academics, policy makers, intellectual property professionals, equity analysts, credit rating analysts and executives in the pharmaceutical industry.
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• Introduction
• Human rights in the information society : utopias, dystopias and human values / Giovanni Sartor
• Knowledge and the new technologies : from ethics to politics and law / Maria da Gloría F.P.D. Garcia
• To block or not to block : European approaches to content regulation, and implications for freedom of expression / Yamon Akdeniz
• Intellectual property and human rights : northern and southern perspectives / Ana E. Santos
• (Right to) development and international transfer of technology : a competition law perspective / Lúcio Tomé Féteira
• Prometheus, Golem & Co. : bioconstitution and bodiliness in a "(world) risk society" / João Carlos Loureiro
• Protecting persons v. protecting human in biobanks / Judit Sándor
• Human reproduction and human dignity as a constitutional concept / Miguel Nogueira de Brito
• The constitutional debate on stem cell research, human rights and dignity : the law and recent court ruling in Brazil / Luiz Edson Fachin
• Angels and demons : data protection and security in electronic communications / Pedro Ferreira
• Privacy, security and new technologies : a Brazilian approach to privacy issues in the public security field / Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha and Danilo Doneda
• Proposing a right to identity within the international framework of human rights : issues and prospects / Norberto Nuno Gomes de Andrade and Paul De Hert
• Legal implications of the privatization of cyber warfare / Lucas Lixinski
• Internet content filtering in Latin America : reasons and impacts on freedom of expression / Joana Varon Ferraz, Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, Bruna Magrani and Walter Britto
• Nanotechnology, human rights, patent law and the global south : a brief overview / Ana Nordberg.

Whilst advances in biotechnology and information technology have undoubtedly resulted in better quality of life for mankind, they can also bring about global problems. The legal response to the challenges caused by the rapid progress of technological change has been slow and the question of how international human rights should be protected and promoted with respect to science and technology remains unexplored. The contributors to this book explore the political discourse and power relations of technological growth and human rights issues between the Global South and the Global North and uncover the different perspectives of both regions. They investigate the conflict between technology and human rights and the perpetuation of inequality and subjection of the South to the North. With emerging economies such as Brazil playing a major role in trade, investment and financial law, the book examines how human rights are affected in Southern countries and identifies significant challenges to reform in the areas of international law and policy.
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While it is a truism that emerging technologies present both opportunities for and challenges to their host communities, the legal community has only recently begun to consider their significance. On the one hand, emerging information, bio, nano, and neurotechnologies challenge policy-makers who aspire to put in place a regulatory environment that is legitimate, effective, and sustainable; on the other hand, these same technologies offer new opportunities as potentially powerful regulatory instruments. In this unique volume, a team of leading international scholars address many of the key difficulties surrounding the regulation of emerging technological targets as well as the implications of adopting technology as a regulatory tool. How should we rise to the challenge of regulating technologies? How are the regulatory lines to be drawn in the right places and how is the public to be properly engaged? How is precaution to be accommodated, and how can the law keep pace with technologies that develop ahead of the regulatory environment? How readily should we avail ourselves of the opportunity to use technology as a regulative strategy? How are we to understand these strategies and the challenges which they raise? To what extent do they give rise to similar policy problems accompanying more 'traditional' regulatory instruments or generate distinctive challenges? While the criminal justice system increasingly relies on technological assistance and the development of a 'surveillance society', is a regulatory regime that rules by technology compatible with rule of law values?
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