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Chamber of Commerce: 'Interference With Copyright Laws = Marxism'

By soulxtc

President and CEO Tom Donohue praises his group's ability to have prevented making such things as cheaper drugs and environmental technology more accessible to all. In remarks before the US Chamber of Commerce's "5th Annual Intellectual Property Summit" yesterday, Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue made some startling comments that should raise the eyebrows of those that think that piracy is merely about movies, music, or software. Intellectual property rights is also about much more important concerns like health education, and even the environment, which Donohue lauds his organization's ability to have prevented the effort by some to make developments in these areas accessible to all. Donohue notes his ability to take on those trying to make cheaper drugs available to the sick and injured in third-world countries around the world: "For example, earlier this year at the World Health Organization, our broad coalition of associations and companies were able to turn back an anti-IP effort and send the message that such assaults against innovation norms will no longer go unchallenged. Activist NGOs had been urging the World Health Organization to oppose IP protections for pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and biotechnology.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on October 09, 2008 (boomark / email).