The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain

Preface; Acknowledgments; The Bauplan; Looking the Gorgon in the Face: The Ubiquity of Propaganda and the Business of Debate; Museums as Venues for Polemics: Exhibits that Provoke Controversy, Argumentation or Refutation; The Museum as a Vehicle for Considered Judgments on Access and Benefit Sharing; Clearing the Air: Applying the Intellectual Property Framework to National, Community, and Individual Rights in The Convention on Biological Diversity; The Tragedy of the Anti-commons Threat to Farmers' Rights: The Case of Crop Germplasm; The Moral Foundations of Intellectual Property and Conservation through Access and Benefit-Sharing; The Nameless Interloper in The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain: A Place, A Process, A Philosophy; Appendix: The Original Essay

'Out of the self-absorbed world of global genetic resources and benefit-sharing, emerges an immensely invigorating volume. With a stellar cast of contributors, the editor cajoles the reader forward through the literary device of a gadfly interloper. The result is a compelling must-read for practitioners and neophytes alike. Where else would you find between the covers of a scholarly treatise, references to Hegel, the Pope and Cher?' —Timothy Hodges, Co-Chair, Working Group on ABS, UN Convention on Biological Diversity