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IPBlog makes the interesting point that "much of the trouble we're having on international IP issues is driven by resentment over U.S. and E.U. agriculture policy," noting that Brazil wants to retaliate for U.S. cotton subsidies by zapping our IP.
They know that it is in the IP-related fields that our economy is globally-dominant, and that our future economic success lies in our creativity, not our labor or natural resources. And if we won't let developing countries have what they care about, they're not going to let us have what WE care about.
And, by the way, they're right. Our agriculture policies stink to high Heaven, and they are going to increasingly cause us international problems if we don't put an end to these stupid and counterproductive policies. So the IP-interested may not be able to stop with extending their ambit of interest to tangible property; on to agricultural subsidies!
posted by James DeLong @ 1:42 PM | International
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