Conflicts Between Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights

Shivani Bisht
Amity Law School, Amity University, Noida, India

Volume-1, Issue-2, 2018

The main aim here is to show connectivity between human rights and Intellectual property rights in national as well as international law arena. These two subjects’ i.e. human rights and intellectual property are two separate areas and their relation is likely to examine for several reasons. First reason is the effect of intellectual property rights on human rights which are right to health, etc. Second reason is about the importance of intellectual property rights due to which scope of human rights are clarified. So the main aim of this article is to examine provisions of already existing knowledge which are given in treaties of human rights. Further, this article also analyzes the effect of already existing intellectual property rights on the human rights and vice-versa.

Keywords:  Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights, Relationship, interface.

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