Mexico worries about music piracy, here and here. In China its movie producers are concerned that piracy is growing.

In Brazil, observers are working to rebut the idea that anti-IP free-riding is the best approach to development. The link is to an article by Lawrence A. Kogan. Comments follow by Dr. Pat Choate, Director of the Manufacturing Policy Project, and author of Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization; Legal Studies and Meigs Professor, O. Lee Reed, of the University of Georgia; and Dr. John Kilama, President of Global Bioscience Development Institute, Inc.

These developments are of particular interest to me as a bit of meta-data in the puzzle over whether the much-touted-in-theory alternatives to statutory IP are workable in fact. People working desperately to raise their standards of living in developing countries are capable of being amazingly adaptive and inventive. If a lack of IP law or real enforcement isn't working for them, well, score one against the IP skeptics.