- Mohamed Bangura
- Lecturer One, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College
- GAS Journal of Law and Society (GASJLS)
Abstract: Moves regarding
the commercialization of intangible products aside from documented means of commercial oversight established on
scientific approaches and the invention and transaction of physical products
have produced Intellectual Property Rights crucial to bourgeois class
acquiring in a progressively universalized informative economy. In customary
behavior exchanges, Intellectual behavior entitlements are stated by this
route to deliver inducements for innovativeness or originality, and to safe
commercial benefits for funding in inquiry and social growth whilst delivering a socially ideal position of
innovative and industrial products. The wider cultural, bureaucratic, and
social implications of the multiplying boost and progression of Intellectual
Property have inspired maximum social focus and interest since the 2000s. A
social conversation of the documented assertions for Intellectual Property in
Sierra Leone western socio-legal traditions is pursued by a reflection of how
these laws considerably outline frameworks of culture and exchange
information (Bangura, 2024). The sociological researcher depict how the
commercial established gain of Intellectual Property has reorganized the
traditional shift between personal property entitlements and general welfare,
moreover establishing substantial social disparities and delivering modern
barriers to the insight of social growth and civil liberties in the emerging
economies like Sierra Leone, although fortifying the isolation of
non-European nations, folks, and customs. The social effect of Intellectual
Property on access to medication, medical management, learning, agronomics,
and the conservation of nutrition abundance, and biodiversity, demonstrates
the risks of developing Intellectual Property entitlements lacking thought of
general welfare or the feasibility of protecting essential general products.
Reactions to these sociological discourses illustrate the demand for and the advent of modern social alliances of government
stakeholders, advocates, and observers able to construct a modern public
affairs of Intellectual Property that exceptional shifts confidential and
general entitlements while promoting civil liberties and sustainable growth. |
Keywords: Intellectual Property Law, Intellectual
Property Rights, Social Implication, Freetown, Sierra Leone