A good article outlining and critiquing NGO influence on intellectual property policy is up at the Federalist Society site, particularly at the international level, "How Intellectual Property Became Controversial: NGO's and the New International IP Agenda," by Mark Schultz and David Walker:

One of the central problems with the criticisms of IP's impact on developing nations is that they focus only on barriers to obtaining products from outside of a developing country, ignoring the benefits that would accrue from promoting innovation within that country. This treats the people of the developing world as victims, forever needing help from outside corporations and more developed countries. There is no reason to believe that people in developing nations are any less inventive than people elsewhere.

posted by Solveig Singleton @ 8:36 AM | Free Culture Movement, International

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