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Techdirt has been reporting for a while on India's growing success in providing its population with access to low-cost generic drug...

Here on Techdirt we often talk about the copyright ratchet -- the fact that for three hundred years changes to copyright have always b...

Techdirt has been pointing out for years that more patents is not the same thing as more innovation, even though many around the world w...

One of the most important recent pieces of research to appear in the field of copyright and its enforcement was " Media Piracy in Emerg...

Getting information about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is like getting blood from a stone, but here's an article with some u...

Last year I wrote about an insidious little agreement called SECURE - Standards to be Employed by Customs for Uniform Rights Enforcement. A...

I've chronicled how WIPO is beginning to shift towards some semblance of fairness when it comes to intellectual monopolies. This is cl...

Some misguided people seem to think that intellectual monopolies are "sacred" - probably because they insist on calling them ...

OK, this might not seem much, but the fact that it's being discussed at all is something of an achievement : The proposal for a new five...

The WTO's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement has figured many times in this blog. It's increas...

Last week I noted a highly partial piece of writing that leapt to Microsoft's defence over its dispute with European Commission. And w...

Here's a hopeful analysis . It concerns the pernicious Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement, which i...