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Biosafety, Patents and Biopiracy
News from Brasil 17.5.99
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 17th May 1999

Copyright on Information
The increasing use of digitally held data is changing publishing and raising new problems about copyright. Electronic journals and databases do not incur the costs of printing, packaging and mailing, but they still cost money to produce and maintain.
Prof. Peter Saunders

Why We Should Reject Biotech Patents from TRIPS
This Report examines the TRIPS
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Terje Traavik

Whose Bird Flu Virus is It Anyways?
A battle over the rights to bird flu viruses at the recent World Health Assembly raises important issues on access to health and medicines for people in the world’s poorest countries and presents a strong case for banning patents on disease agents and their genes and genome sequences.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 2nd July 2007

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