tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584184955165990138.post5663262385172045189..comments2023-10-18T08:33:18.102-07:00Comments on Ip's What's Up: Slight Changes, Big Effects?goldenrailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07257965659017173039noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584184955165990138.post-28543079499419283432008-10-13T16:39:00.000-07:002008-10-13T16:39:00.000-07:00There are several high-ups in the Nigerian IP area...There are several high-ups in the Nigerian IP area that agree with you. I'm not so sure. I do think global IP laws in general, esp. copyright laws have grown far too stifling. But, just allowing free-wheeling pirating doesn't seem like a good solution. The US did have IP protection laws when it was developing; there just wasn't the same international regime.goldenrailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07257965659017173039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584184955165990138.post-82283620116663323402008-10-13T13:05:00.000-07:002008-10-13T13:05:00.000-07:00hey thanks for all your good words!here's my q...hey thanks for all your good words!<BR/><BR/>here's my quick thought on this issue. While it might seem fair to have a country only ask of other countries what it is willing/able to do itself, countries have specific institutional and infrastructural situations which make the same rules have totally different effects. <BR/><BR/>So the US can equally tax itself and Jamaica on banana production, but the effect is that Jamaica is punished because the US doesn't actually grow bananas. fair application of the same rule everywhere has unfair effects.<BR/><BR/>with respect to IP, I wonder about the effect on development, especially technology transfer & knowledge transfer. The US, when it was developing its technological and intellectual infrastructure, was basically a pirate nation, and advanced quickly by not having to reinvent the wheel, instead using knowledge * technological resources from other countries without licensing them. My view is that now the US is denying developing countries that same opportunity...ripleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15656598433563511671noreply@blogger.com