Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual property rights guarantee that the individual who spends time constructing something new in the context of human experience can continuously claim credit in a financial sense–or in other words, claim ownership over the product or the idea that they developed. This is a difficult issue as it pertains to the art and culture of indigenous communities, for example, or the patent on a life-saving drug for a disease like HIV/AIDS. This is a demonstration of how it is difficult to guarantee individual rights while accepting collective rights.   

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