Grain.org is a site devoted to promoting " the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge." One feature is a "jargon buster" (see the sidebar on the site). It has an interesting rant on the word knowledge.
One of the authors on Grain is Aziz Choudry, an activist from New Zealand involved in global ecology/trade issues. His essay, Corporate conquest, global geopolitics: Intellectual property rights and bilateral investment treaties , is worth a look for his views on IPR. "The privatisation of information – including genetic information – through intellectual property regimes is crucial to capitalism today. And the US and EU share a common agenda to globalise intellectual property protection through both bilateral and multilateral means."
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