Are you aware Mr President, that your companies want the right to patent surgical procedures and even life forms – the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) provisions are fast becoming a new form of “fencing up the commons” – the 21st century modality of siphoning the wealth of the developing world to the rich corporations in the advanced countries. Ever since the colonial period, the wealth of the 3rd world has been ripped off – first through direct rule, then through the control of technology, then through creating indebtedness and control of access to markets. The IPR provisions are the newest method to squeeze wealth from the poorer countries into the bankbooks of the 1%. Dr Kumar
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:54:34 +0000
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