Intellectual Property High on the G-8 Agenda

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Intellectual property rights are supposed to play a crucial role at the coming G-8 summit in Heiligendamm. The subject itself is politically highly explosive. The German federal government’s G-8 agenda leans heavily toward the short-term interests of knowledge owners (= industrialised countries). Thus it contradicts its own claim to assume “responsibility for the political, economic and social shaping of globalisation”, writes Klaus Liebig.

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