All Posts Tagged With: "Biopiracy"
SciDev on Biopiracy
Brazil’s Biopiracy Laws “Are Stifling Research”
Excerpt: [RECIFE] Brazilian scientists are urging the government to modify laws that have been introduced to reduce biopiracy, in order to give them more freedom to collect and analyse biological material for research purposes.
Reason.com on Biopiracy
Biopiracy and Other Myths: Saying “Yes Patents on Life” - Reason, September 2003
Excerpt: Cancun—”No Patents on Life,” is one the most frequently heard slogans among anti-globalization activists at the World Trade Organization’s 5th Ministerial meeting. It is part of a fierce fight over intellectual property rights. Who has the right to make pharmaceuticals and who has the right to grow genetically enhanced crop plants are hotly in dispute at the WTO conference.
Biopiracy Article on SSRN
There’s No Such Thing as Biopiracy… And It’s A Good Thing Too - SSRN, August 2005
Excerpt: Tales of northern exploitation of biological wealth and ethnobiological knowledge from the global south have become so frequent, so familiar, and so uniform that allegations of biopiracy now follow a predictable script. I come not to praise the biopiracy narrative, but to bury it. Most allegations of biopiracy are so thoroughly riddled with inconsistencies and outright lies that the entire genre, pending further clarification, must be consigned to the realm of rural legend. Despite its implausibility, however, accusations of biopiracy set the rhetorical baseline in many debates within the international law of environmental protection and intellectual property. The time has come to dismantle the myth of biopiracy root and branch.