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12.8.2004
Copyright and Drugs
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TechCentralStation today draws an explicit link between copyright issues and drug patents.
It notes that Bill Clinton's foundation is all in favor of allowing "knock-off [AIDs] pills, produced without permission or supervision by generics manufacturers in countries that do not recognize international patent rights."
How does this relate to copyright? Well, according to the NYT, says TCS, many of the copies of Clinton's book My Life for sale in Asia "are hastily pirated versions -- sold for a fraction of the price and without any of the royalties due its rightful author." Furthermore:
[T]he chronic misspellings, cheap materials and smudgy ink that mark the knock-offs commonly found in Asia are the least of the problem. Mr. Clinton's carefully chosen words have been murdered by additions and deletions wholly out of keeping with the original. Copies available in China have Mr. Clinton serially quoting Mao and extolling the feng shui of his hometown in Arkansas.
posted by James DeLong : 12/8/2004 01:03:46 PM
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