Patent law
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.
TRIPping Up Property Rights
IPN Opinion article
After years of campaigning, activists have narrowed the debate about health care in poor countries to a single premise: intellectual property rights restrict access to medicines. But this discussion takes energy away from the things that really matter: infrastructure, doctors, nurses.
IP fixation is bad for health
IPN Opinion article
International NGO campaigns in India have given the misleading impression that patents are the single most important barrier to good health in less-developed countries. This fallacy is drawing attention away from the real causes of disease.
Populism versus the poor
IPN Opinion article
Innovation by India's internationally competitive scientists suffers because of protectionist policies of the Government, says Roger Bate
Compulsory social responsibility
IPN Opinion article
Martin Krause, dean of ESEADE Business School in Argentina, writes in The Washington Times that Latin American governments are undermining the market for new AIDS medicines with their populist policies of price controls and compulsory licences.
NGOs on Drugs
IPN Opinion article
Alec van Gelder writes in the Wall Street Journal Europe that the proposals to circumvent property rights made by the self-styled "friends of development", a group of NGOs and Governments from poorer countries, are misguided in their attempts to improve access to medicines, among other things.
India's crackdown on fakes
IPN Opinion article
India's parliament recently passed legislation to protect intellectual property. IPN Director Julian Morris says that, despite attempts to weaken the law, "This legislation represents movement in the right direction."
Entire intellectual property system could easily fall
IPN Opinion article
Discusses patents, compulsory licensing and trade
