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Rebalancing Intellectual Property In The Information Society: The Human Rights Approach, Ana Eduarda Santos

Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference Papers

In today's Information Society, one of the most salient paradoxes is the fact that the law of intellectual property has been systematically used in ways that erect barriers around the very building blocks that lie at its foundation. As intellectual property law stretches to cover all kinds of information-intensive goods at an atomic level, access to raw data and educational materials is hindered, creative inputs shrink and scientific research becomes harder, costlier and, in some cases, virtually impossible.

The set of limitations and exceptions offered by intellectual property laws around the world tends to be either too frail or too …