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Western Hypocrisy on Intellectual Monopolies
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| There is currently a huge bun-fight going on
| at the WHO over who has the "rights" to "own"
| key genomic information about pandemic influenza viruses.
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| [...]
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| You would have thought that against the
| background of a financial system brought to
| its knees by blind greed, at least here at the
| World *Health* Organisation there would be a
| more, er, healthy and mature attitude to
| saving the world from a potentially even
| greater disaster. Apparently not....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/12/western-hypocrisy-on-intellectual.html
""The "rights" to "own"." He read Slated.
Recent:
Patent system 'stifling science'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7632318.stm
What Can We Do To Help?
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-can-we-do-to-help.html
Related:
Patents Over Patients
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/opinion/01moss.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Open Source Pharmaceuticals - New Business Model
http://www.farmavita.net/content/view/336/51/
Thailand fed up with high drug prices - minister
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/19/worldupdates/2007-02-19T014311Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-288239-1&sec=worldupdates
Biology Goes Open Source
http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/02/12/novartis-genes-diabetes-research-biz-cz_mh_0212novartis.html?partner=rss
http://tinyurl.com/2vqssl
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