INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES

  • Prof. Rahat Ahmed

Abstract

Human Rights law and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) law are entirely two different areas of law. Since their beginning, they grew segregated from each other. Neither of them infringed on each other’s domains. Human rights and intellectual property which were two bodies of law, once strangers, are now becoming increasingly intimate. The increasing importance of intellectual property rights has led to the need for clarifying the scope of human rights provisions protecting individual contributions to knowledge. A number of new challenges need to be addressed concerning contributions to knowledge, which cannot effectively be protected by intellectual property rights regimes. According to this view, IPR law infringes on the different areas of Human Rights law, especially when economic, social and cultural rights are concerned. Another view is that both IPR Law and Human Rights law can co-exist with one another. No reference to human rights was seen in the fundamental treaties of IPR law.. Thus, this article examines the different aspects of the relationship between intellectual property rights and human rights. It analyzes existing knowledge protection-related provisions in human rights treaties. It also examines some of the impacts of existing intellectual property rights regimes on the realization of human rights. Keywords: Human Rights, Intellectual Property Rights, increasingly.
How to Cite
Prof. Rahat Ahmed. (1). INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES. International Journal Of Innovation In Engineering Research & Management UGC APPROVED NO. 48708, EFI 5.89, WORLD SCINTIFIC IF 6.33, 8(4), 22-24. Retrieved from http://journal.ijierm.co.in/index.php/ijierm/article/view/186