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Intellectual Property RightsAction plan to ease disease burden of developing world
Despite the staggeringly disproportionate impact of disease on the developing world, pharmaceuticals develop drugs that have a potentially profitable market rather than drugs that are urgently required in poorer countries. Will this change with the World Health Assembly’s recent adoption of a global strategy to fill gaps in existing R&D and work towards drugs needed for diseases that affect developing countries? More... Intellectual Property Rights are a privilege, not a human rightIntellectual Property Rights should be subsumed to human rights, national interests and the preservation of genetic resources More... Are intellectual property rights fundamental human rights?What are the implications of construing IPR as fundamental human rights? More... 'Anything that is worth copying is worth sharing': Prof Eben MoglenEben Moglen, principal proponent of the free software movement, believes that there is an inherent relationship between free software and free culture. Each is interdependent and enables the other More... Copyright: Keeping a balance between public and private interestThe copyright system is meant to promote access to knowledge in the public domain, not to restrict it. The proposed amendments to the Indian Copyright Act 1957, however, may land us with an ever-growing list of restrictions More... Reconsidering the pirate nation: Notes from South Africa and IndiaTrade losses to software manufacturers due to piracy are as high as $125 billion. We need to interrogate why piracy of software, books, music etc exists as a market phenomenon. Could it be an organic market reaction to the exclusion of consumers by copyright industries? More... Property and rights: Owning ideas, fish and forestsAll debates about property – whether it’s water, medicines or a piece of music – revolve around two fundamental questions: who should have the rights to own and benefit from the property; and what should those rights consist of? More... The advent of patent rajThe third amendment to the Indian Patents Act, if passed in its present form, is likely to adversely affect the availability, accessibility and affordability of medicines – three important components of people’s right to health. The public campaign against the proposed legislation is heating u More... Shoot, share and create: Looking beyond copyright makes sense in filmWhy documentary and alternative filmmakers in India should start licensing their works under an 'open content' license More... |
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