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India Hits Back in 'Bio-Piracy' Battle

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the prior-body-art dept.

papvf writes "The BBC News Online has an interesting story about a project to put traditional medical knowledge online. From the article: 'The ambitious $2m project, christened Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, will roll out an encyclopedia of the country's traditional medicine in five languages - English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish - in an effort to stop people from claiming them as their own and patenting them.'"

2 of 190 comments (clear)

  1. Re:India? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The article hopes to "curry" favour.... HAHA!

  2. Re:India? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They should outsource that data entry.