[p2p-research] Open patents for development

[Ryan Lanham]

My guess is the radical growth of IP paralleled the rapid growth of law
schools.  More lawyers, more legal issues. I guess we'd have to say we have
"abundant lawyers."

Ryan

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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