US Says 4.3 Billion People Live With Bad IP Laws

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 30, 2010 @06:42AM from the shame-on-all-of-you dept.

bowser100 writes "The US government has released its annual Special 301 report (PDF) in which it purports to identify those countries with inadequate intellectual property laws. Michael Geist digs into the report, noting the list is so large that it is rendered meaningless. According to the report, approximately 4.3 billion people live in countries without effective intellectual property protection. Since the report does not include any African countries outside of North Africa, the US is effectively saying that only a small percentage of the world meets its standard for IP protection."

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Re:In other news by vxice · 2010-04-30 07:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In further other news only sitting head of state charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity by the international criminal court gets reelected which seems to concern no one. But this whole IP thing is more important anyways. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/04/201042612282143933.html

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