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There's no shortage of critics of massive trade agreements like TPP and TAFTA/TTIP, but today saw strong condemnation from a very un...

Presumably as part of the overall agreement for Russia to be allowed to join the WTO , the Ministry of Culture there has published a dra...

A few years back, Techdirt noted that India had 16,000 licensed drug manufacturers in the 1990s, and became a net exporter of pharmaceut...

I and many others have noted how changes in copyright law only ever work in one direction: to *increase* copyright's term and to give gr...

I've been following the rather entertaining case of Antigua vs. US for a few years now. Basically, the US government has taken a "...

Usually, I attack copyright on very general grounds - it's a monopoly, it's locking up knowledge, blah-blah-blah. But here's a ...

What was Richard Stallman's greatest achievement? Some might say it's Emacs, one of the most powerful and adaptable pieces of softwa...

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

Here's an interview with Cory Doctorow, who explains with frightening lucidity just how he and his chums broke the WTO system. Key bit...

...like we need a hole in the head : the European Commission wants the EU to bypass WIPO and the WTO and move forward on a new anticounterfe...

Just to be on the safe side, you understand : A Brussels think-tank has accused the US government of reneging on commitments made to the Wor...

The story about a large-scale implementation of GNU/Linux systems in Russian schools surfaced recently, but it was all rather vague, so I di...

I've covered the dispute between the US and Antigua over online gambling before , but it looks like there's a chance the perfect end...

I've written about the spat between the US and Antigua before , but it looks like things are getting really heavy : And so, today, what ...

Now, I wonder where that lot over there could have got these ideas : A fully functioning intellectual property system is an essential facto...

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...

Go for it: Repeated violation of WTO commitments in the face of contrary WTO rulings allows a victimized member country ultimately to suspe...

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

It seems that the WTO's demands are starting to bite in Vietnam : Though copyright sale isn’t very common on the Vietnamese market, at t...

Great piece in the BMJ excoriating greed and stupidity in the pharmaceutical industry: It is hard to see how the patent issued by the US g...