Intellectual property rights create private boundaries of ownership around the public goods of information and knowledge. These rights have globalized and now permeate industry, agriculture and services affecting, amongst other things, who extracts the most value from global production chains, who has access to medicines, which technical standards will come to be adopted in information technology markets, the capacity of second generation innovators to threaten incumbents, the evolution of digital networks and services, the structure of seed markets, the price of textbooks, and the rights to experiment with culture. At the most fundamental level globalized intellectual property rights function as a private tax affecting the rate of diffusion of knowledge that in turn impacts on equality. Over the years members of the Law Department have explored different aspects of intellectual property rights, including digital rights management, open source, creative commons, and the relationship between intellectual property and competition law. In addition to these areas, current themes of interest include open access initiatives, intellectual property, technology and the green economy, intellectual property and human rights, intellectual property in trade agreements, intellectual property and the global investment regime and the role of intellectual property in knowledge governance. Search resources relevant for #Intellectual property (IP), intellectual property rights People 10 News 3 Research Projects 4 Educational Programmes 2 Research Programmes 1 Peter Frank Drahos Emeritus Professor Department of Law View Peter Frank Drahos profile Guillem Gabriel-Pizarro Researcher Department of Law View Guillem Gabriel-Pizarro profile Velizar Kirilov Researcher Department of Law View Velizar Kirilov profile Francesca Lagioia Part-time Professor Department of Law View Francesca Lagioia profile Pier Luigi Parcu Part-time Professor Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies View Pier Luigi Parcu profile Nicolas Petit Head of Department Department of Law Full-time Professor Department of Law Director of Research Department of Law View Nicolas Petit profile Anthony Rosborough Researcher Department of Law View Anthony Rosborough profile Giovanni Sartor Part-time Professor Department of Law View Giovanni Sartor profile Helena Alviar Garcia Fernand Braudel Fellow Department of Law View Helena Alviar Garcia profile Alena Yarmak Researcher Department of Law View Alena Yarmak profile Schuman Shelf - Social Media, Fundamental Rights and Courts Lukas Nord receives Econ Job Market Best Paper Award 2022 Standard Essential Patents | Call for abstracts Working Group on Law, Rationalism and Complexity INFOSOC (Information Society) Working Group Finance, Innovation and Business Regulation Working Group Innovation and intellectual property in the Digital Age Florence Patent Licensing Academy Florence Patent Licensing Academy Centre for a Digital Society