Biopolitics and Intellectual Property: Gordon Hull – Philosophy

We will go beyond what the intellectual property laws establish by navigating in the book “The Biopolitics of Intellectual Property: Regulation Innovation and Personhood in the Information Age” with his author Gordon Hull the Director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, Prof. Philosophy and Public Policy, and Affiliate Faculty, School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte. 

Transcript

Hello! From Washington, DC.  This is Episode 9. Today we will go beyond what the intellectual property laws establish by navigating in the book “The Biopolitics of Intellectual Property: Regulation Innovation and Personhood in the Information Age.” 

Today we have the great pleasure of talking with the Director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, Prof. Philosophy and Public Policy, and Affiliate Faculty, School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte. 

Questions 

Please define biopolitics and its relationship with intellectual property.   

In your book, you mentioned that “It is necessary to recognize that IP is performing a different and new social function, one that requires a rethinking of the king of power expressed by IP laws and regulations.” Can you please explain this new social function? Can you describe the changes to the IP legal framework? 

Could you please explain paracopyright? How is it different from copyright?   

Could you please explain the consequences of including the dilution doctrine in trademark law?   

What is the model “actuarial agency”? How does it affect public health and patents? 

And, so we come to the end of our episode. See you next Tuesday, with a new guest and a new IP topic.  |  

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