Creative India: tapping the full potential
India’s creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. This study provides the first reliable measure on the size of India’s creative economy, explores the many challenges faced
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
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Healthy advice to pharma companies
a group of 12 European institutional investors has come out with a prescription for the international pharmaceutical industry, exhorting the latter to provide developing countries with easier access
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EU legislation The wrong note
The music industry is crying out loud against eu legislation for protecting intellectual property, complaining that it falls short of what is needed to fight piracy. The eu recently proposed a directive to integrate currently divergent systems in the cont
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Safeguarding tradition
A new initiative for the welfare of indigenous people was launched by an international group of experts at a meeting in Bellagio, Italy, from November 25-30. Known as
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Net effect
Environmentalism offers a rich analogy for the politics of copyright on the Internet
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Playing knowledge games
INFORMATION FEUDALISM . Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite . Earthscan Publications Limited . London . 2002 . Rs 920 In the last two decades, the intellectual property standards have changed
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Debt trap
Cash strapped Sri Lanka under pressure to let the US play a decisive role in conserving its tropical forests
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The shape of things to come
A hard look at the implications of expensive seeds and technology on farmers, especially those in the third world
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Jumping the gun
The bill fails to utilise obvious relief routes offered by TRIPS
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Sans safeguards?
The newly amended patents bill is replete with loopholes
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Leaving their mark
With almost all the countries entering the