Innovation and Development in the Age of Climate Change Adaptation: Open or Closed?

Change Adaptation: Open or Closed? Paper read at the Second African International Economic Law Network Conference, 7-8 March 2013, Wits School of Law, Johannesburg, South Africa. In a time of rapid convergence of technologies, goods, services, hardware, software, the traditional classifications that informed past treaties fail to remove legal uncertainty, or advance welfare and innovation. As a result, we turn our attention to the role and needs of the public domain at the interface of existing intellectual property rights and new modes of creation, production and distribution of goods and services. The concept of open culture would have it that knowledge should be spread freely and its growth should come from further developing existing works on the basis of sharing and collaboration without the shackles of intellectual property. Intellectual property clauses find their way into regional, multilateral, bilateral and free trade agreements more often than not, and can cause public discontent and incite unrest. Many of these intellectual property clauses raise the bar on protection beyond the clauses found in the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). In this paper we address the question of the protection and development of the public domain in service of open innovation in accord with Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in light of the Objectives (Article 7) and Principles (Article 8) set forth in TRIPS. Once areas of divergence and reinforcement between the intellectual property regime and human rights have been discussed, we will enter into options that allow for innovation and prosperity in the global south. We then conclude by discussing possible policy developments.

Manor life in old France; from the Journal of the sire de Gouberville for the years 1549-1562,

Mode of access: Internet.

Greece in the age of Pericles /

Includes index.

A treatise conteyning the true catholike and apostolike faith of the holy sacrifice and sacrament ordeyned by Christ at his last Supper : vvith a declaration of the Berengarian heresie renewed in our age: and an answere to certain sermons made by M. Robert Bruce minister of Edinburgh concerning this matter /

STC (2nd ed.),

Hip fracture outcomes in people age 50 and over : mortality, service use, expenditures, and long-term functional impairment /

"PB94-107653"--Cover.

Love in old cloathes and other stories.

Mode of access: Internet.

The peasants' rising and the Lollards : a collection of unpublished documents forming an appendix to "England in the age of Wycliffe."

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In old Bellaire.

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An ecclesiastical biography : containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics, forming a brief history of the church in every age /

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The book that is alive : studies in Old Testament life and thought as set forth /

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Literary by-paths in old England,

In Spenser's footsteps.--The home of Sir Philip Sidney.--Memorials of William Penn.--The birthplace of Gray's Elegy.--Gilbert White's Selborne.--Goldsmith's "Deserted Village."--Burns in Ayrshire.--Keats and his circle.--In Carlyle's country.--Thomas Hood's homes and friends.--Royal Winchester.

Modern traits in old Greek life.

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A little girl in old San Francisco /

"Published September, 1905"--T.p., verso.

The prepositions in, on, to, for, fore, and æt in Anglo-Saxon prose; a study of case values in Old English ...

Biographical sketch.