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International development minister urges firms to pool HIV patents
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| Drug companies should give up their patent rights to HIV medicines to help
| prevent the deaths of millions of people in poor countries, a British
| government minister will say this week.
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| The international development minister, Mike Foster, will call on
| pharmaceutical companies to put lives before profits, as the all-party
| parliamentary group on Aids publishes a report this week detailing the scale
| of the "treatment timebomb". By 2030, they estimate, 50 million people will
| need new drugs, which are currently prohibitively expensive, to keep them
| alive.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/12/hiv-medicine-patents-drugs-companies
Copyright laws threaten our online freedom
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| The internet it still in its infancy, but already we see fantastic things
| appearing as if by magic. Take Linux, the free computer operating system, or
| Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Witness the participatory culture of
| MySpace and YouTube, or the growth of the Pirate Bay, which makes the world’s
| culture easily available to anybody with an internet connection. But where
| technology opens up new possibilities, our intellectual property laws do
| their best to restrict them. Linux is held back by patents, the rest of the
| examples by copyright.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/87c523a4-6b18-11de-861d-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Recent:
Patenting of human genes
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| Dr. Shuster, who has a doctorate in molecular pathology conceded that patents
| on genes hinder medical practice.
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http://iitrade.ac.in/news-detail.asp?news=719
Intellectual Monopolies Kill: Two Examples
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| If people with breast cancer genes are demonstrably suffering in this way,
| statistics tells us that some of them will be dying as a direct result of
| Myriad's aggressive defence of its unwarranted intellectual monopolies.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/intellectual-monopolies-kill-two.html
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