Intellectual property rights and food security: the role of external relations

S. Hongladarom

Intellectual property rights and food security: the role of external relations

In: The ethics of consumption

Author:

S. Hongladarom

S. Hongladarom Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; hsoraj@chula.ac.th

Search for other papers by S. Hongladarom in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed

Type:: Chapter

Pages:: 31–36

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867844_006

Purchase instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):

€42.00€35.00 excl. VAT

Add to Cart

Redeem Access Token

Intellectual property rights (IPR’s) have become an important tool in ensuring food security; however, if used inappropriately, it could well create the reverse. This paper looks at the concept of IPR’s in order to find a way to harness their use so as food security is ensured. A tentative argument proposed here is that IPR’s do not exist in a metaphysical or epistemological vacuum; on the contrary, research and development leading up to patentable products is often related to social, economic or political contexts in such a way that the relation is constitutive. Thus, it is appropriate that claims to IPR’s should acknowledge these relations through a scheme of benefit sharing that is fair to all parties. In the course of the paper I will discuss the four major theories of IPR’s according to Fisher – the consequentialist theory, the Lockean theory, the Kantian/Hegelian theory, and the democratic order theory. The aim is to criticize each of them very briefly in terms of the constitutive external relations. If it is the case that IPR’s are even partly constituted by relations to outside contexts, then elements of these contexts should have a share in the benefits that accrue through the use of IPR’s also.

Citation Info

Save
Cite
Email this content

Share link with colleague or librarian

You can email a link to this page to a colleague or librarian:
Email this content
or copy the link directly:

https://brill.edhh.ma/abstract/book/9789086867844/BP000006.xml
The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.

Link copied successfully

Collapse
Expand

The ethics of consumption

The citizen, the market, and the law

E-Book ISBN:: 9789086867844

Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 01 Nov 2013

Subjects
- Life Sciences

Metrics

	All Time	Past 365 days	Past 30 Days
Abstract Views	90	49	9
Full Text Views	2	0	0
PDF Views & Downloads	3	0	0

African Studies	Education	Media Studies
American Studies	History	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	Musicology
Art History	International Law	Philosophy
Asian Studies	International Relations	Religious Studies
Biblical Studies	Jewish Studies	Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Biology	Languages and Linguistics	Social Sciences
Book History and Cartography	Life Sciences	Theology and World Christianity
Classical Studies	Literature and Cultural Studies

Subjects

Authors

Open Access

Product Information

Company

Contact

Intellectual property rights and food security: the role of external relations

Citation Info

Share link with colleague or librarian

The ethics of consumption

The citizen, the market, and the law

Table of Contents

Metrics

Metrics