Technorati Tags: Copyfight, Cory Doctorow, World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, WorldChangingCopyfight is the broad banner to describe people who are fighting for reforms to intellectual property -- trademarks, patents, copyrights and what are called "related rights" (broadcast rights and so on)...
Every successfully developed country made use of free information goods. More accurately, they all went through a stage when they were a pirate nation. America spent a century as a pirate nation, ripping off the intellectual property of every country around it, and in particular, of Britain, because when you're a net importer of intellectual property, signing on to multilateral copyright and patent agreements is signing on to exporting your wealth off-shore. When you're a net exporter of intellectual property, it makes economic sense...
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Sunday, July 31, 2005
Interview by Cory Doctorow on the World Intellectual Property Organization
Warning: High Density. From WorldChanging: