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Are European Think Tanks Corporate Lobbyists By Another Name?

By Intellectual Property Watch

Think tanks can be a godsend for reporters with a looming deadline. Almost invariably, they are staffed with articulate policy specialists, adept at summarising complex issues in a few quotable sentences. Frequently, too, the think tanks have neutral-sounding names, so a reader or viewer of news reports can easily believe that they are independent of vested interests. Closer inspection reveals that many of these ?independent? bodies are in fact heavily reliant on corporate donations. This is especially the case for a number of think tanks working on intellectual property.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on January 31, 2011 (boomark / email).