notes: Legal Rights and Future of Digital Libraries

Lesk, Chapter 11


Stiglitz
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
October of 2004
" acknowledge that the current rules of the international economic game reflect the interests of the advanced industrial countries – especially of their big corporations – more than the interests of the developing world."

if you can use others' stuff, progress will suffer.
regime, temporary monopoly.

"it was clear that there was more interest in pleasing the pharmaceutical and entertainment industries than in ensuring an intellectual-property regime that was good for science, let alone for developing countries." ---not surprising.


Lynch

NSF Workshop report