[p2p-research] Open patents for development

[Michel Bauwens]

just one correction Kevin;

the western states did not use IP or disgarded it in their own development
phases, their enamouration with it is much more recent ... with industry
mostly gone, IP rents for big multinationals are very important to the
neoliberal regime, and not a nostalgic attachment to the past ... so I don't
think the position is about goodwill towards developing nations; but rather
about how to continue exploitation

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> With reference to the blog post - 'Open up patents for development and
> mitigating climate change: a concrete proposal'
>
> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-up-patents-for-development-and-mitigating-climate-change-a-concrete-proposal/2009/12/13
>
> So there is disagreement between the developed and the developing
> countries on the efficiency of current intellectual property regime
> for climate-related environmentally sound technologies, what about
> other areas?
>
> The developed countries see strong IP enforcement as having been
> important to its own development and so see it as logical that
> developing countries should need strong IP to develop likewise. But
> isnt this really the western nations maintaining their monopolies and
> keeping developing nations in their place as dependents through
> actually restricting and holding back development?
>
> In the short to medium term who benefits more from commons oriented
> peer production the developed or the developing nations?
> With recent posts on Brazil in mind. Could developing nations be the
> real big innovators for future peer production? How might these
> current antagonisms over IP between developed and developing countries
> play out in a multi-polar world?
> Is anyone aware of developing countries making bilateral and
> multilateral agreements to circumvent such restrictions in
> international trade agreements?
> Is the developed world too entrenched in its ways for more radical
> adoption of peer production?
> Will the old extractive colonial mindset of the west lead to its own
> downfall?
>
> Lots of ????????
>
> All the best
>
> Kevin Flanagan
>
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