Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Pradip Ninan Thomas and Jan Servaes -- The emerging information economy : an overview / Roberto Verzola -- United States' trade policy and the reshaping of intellectual property rights protection in the APEC region / Stephen D. McDowell and Moonki Hong -- Copyright and the global good? an examination of 'the public interest' in international copyright regimes / Sara Bannerman -- Copyright, competition policy and prevention of monopolistic abuses in the TRIPS agreement / Daya Shanker -- Indigenous knowledge in the age of new technologies : whose knowledge? / Levi Obijiofor -- Indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights : the interface / Kamal Puri -- Learning to love the market : copyright, culture, and China / Lucy Montgomery and Michael Keane -- China's efforts for international cooperation in copyright protection / Yonghua Zhang -- Culture, communication, and the meaning of intellectual property rights in South Asia : a critical analysis / Binod C. Agrawal -- Uncommon futures : interpreting IP contestations in India / Pradip Ninan Thomas -- Australian sport, property rights and the emerging information monopoly / Rhonda Breit -- Creative commons : accessing, negotiating and remixing online content / Brian Fitzgerald -- Alternative intellectual property regimes in the global creative economy / Terry Flew, Greg Hearn, and Susanna Leisten -- IPR and communications : markets, communities and the public domain / Pradip Ninan Thomas and Jan Servaes.