14 June 2009

US Green Patents vs. Global Climate Commons

Guess which wins?

Last night the House voted overwhelmingly to establish new U.S. policy that will oppose any global climate change treaty that weakens the IP rights of American "green technology."

Staggering. Sickening. Suicidal. (Via Against Monopoly.)

4 comments:

Eleftherios Kosmas said...

God, that's insane!!! This is too much for me to handle!

Glyn Moody said...

Yup, just utterly beyond the limits of sanity.

Anonymous said...

I submitted this one to Slashdot. Pretty shocking stuff all round, really.

Glyn Moody said...

Excellent - deserves wider audience.