Intellectual property law
What Purpose Unitaid’s Patent Pool?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
This paper examines the wisdom of Unitaid's new patent pool for AIDS treatments, considering the weaknesses in the case for such a pool, the lessons from historical examples and the likely consequences for research and development.
Fake Scare About Fake Drugs
IPN Opinion article
EU pharmaceutical seizures are a good thing for India and for patients
Ghana: Unchaining country's melodies
IPN Opinion article
Ghana's untapped source of wealth lies in the creative talents of songwriters, composers, and bands.
Music, money and growth
IPN Opinion article
African music is loved all over the world but African musicians live in poverty: the few stars record and publish abroad. These authors explain how Africans can develop that talent into commercial success as the impoverished city of Nashville did in the 1920s, becoming a musical and economic dynamo.
Vested Interests in Deadly Medicines
IPN Opinion article
Counterfeit drugs are flooding into Africa, where up to one in three medicines can be fake, causing widespread suffering and death.
Unchain Africa's Melodies
IPN Opinion article
Many kinds of African music are loved the world over yet most African musicians remain bitterly poor: a few remarkable individuals have found success abroad but only South Africa offers the kind of legal protection for property rights that Western creative talents take for granted. These authors describe how copyright underpinned the investments and the creative rights that launched Nashville, a story that can be imitated anywhere. Zambia shows how failure can be turned around quickly. See the full report Nashville in Africa here.
