Globalisation, information and libraries : the implications of the world trade organisation's gats and trips agreements /

This book provides an overview of the World Trade Organisation; in particular, it focuses on two of the agreements being developed at the WTO, which are due to be strengthened in 2005, and are likely to have significant implications for libraries and information: the General Agreement on Trade in Se...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rikowski, Ruth
Formato: Electrónico Software eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] : Chandos Publishing, 2005.
Colección:Chandos series for information professionals.
Temas:
World Trade Organization.
Globalization.
Commercial treaties.
Library legislation.
Biblioth�eques > L�egislation.
Mondialisation.
Accords commerciaux.
globalism.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
GATS.
Organisation mondiale du commerce.
Propri�et�e intellectuelle.
Biblioth�eques.
Services d'information.
ADPIC = Accord g�en�eral sur les aspects des droits de propri�et�e intellectuelle li�es au commerce.
Commercial treaties
Globalization
Library legislation
Handelsverdragen.
Bibliotheken.
Internationalisatie.
Recht van de intellectuele eigendom.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1 Globalisation and the World Trade Organisation: Globalisation and an overview of the WTO
  • Part 2 The general agreement on trade in the services: An overview of the GATS
  • The GATS, libraries, information and cultural services within an international perspective
  • Real-life examples of how the GATS is impacting on libraries in the UK
  • Positions taken by various library and cultural bodies on the GATS
  • Part 3 Agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights: TRIPS, copyright, libraries and information
  • TRIPS, patents, traditional knowledge, information and libraries in the developing world
  • Implications of TRIPS for information and libraries internationally
  • Part 4 An open marxist theoretical perspective on global capitalism and the World Trade Organisation: Implications of GATS and TRIPS: an Open Marxist approach
  • The furtherance of global capitalism through the WTO
  • Conclusions.

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