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Prelude to Compatibility between Human Rights and Intellectual Property
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Chicago Journal of International Law
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright University of Chicago Law School Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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I. INTRODUCTION
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.1
The goals of advocates for human rights and intellectual property rights are not incompatible, and in fact are
harmonious and attainable without excluding or prioritizing one over the other. Yet today we are faced with growing, entrenched views that the only way to achieve the human rights goals of health, food, and education is through a reduction of intellectual property rights,2 and the view that only by expanded intellectual property rights can we provide incentives for innovation that will address the concerns for health, food, and ...