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And it has deployed a variety of methods – including weak intellectual
property
(IP) protections, technology transfers as a condition for joint ventures with Chinese partners, evasion of export controls, and regulatory harassment – to acquire such technologies from the US and other trading partners.
There is no substitute for stopping those who would destroy cultural
property
before they do it.
His solution was to assign
property
rights to the shared resource, compensating the losers.
How, after all, would one assign
property
rights to atmospheric composition?
Already, insurers of coastal
property
are throwing up their hands at the difficulty of figuring out how high the sea will rise and how hard the storms to come will blow.
Finally, Russian oligarchs own more
property
in London and the south of France than they do in New York or Miami.
Intellectual-Property Rights and WrongsLast October, the General Assembly of the World Intellectual
Property
Organization (WIPO) decided to consider what a development-oriented intellectual
property
regime might look like.
Without intellectual
property
protection, incentives to engage in certain types of creative endeavors would be weakened.
But there are high costs associated with intellectual
property.
Ideas are the most important input into research, and if intellectual
property
slows down the ability to use others’ ideas, then scientific and technological progress will suffer.
In fact, many of the most important ideas – for example, the mathematics that underlies the modern computer or the theories behind atomic energy or lasers – are not protected by intellectual
property.
The growth of the “open source” movement on the Internet shows that not just the most basic ideas, but even products of enormous immediate commercial value can be produced without intellectual
property
protection.
By contrast, an intellectual
property
regime rewards innovators by creating a temporary monopoly power, allowing them to charge far higher prices than they could if there were competition.
The economic rationale for intellectual
property
is that faster innovation offsets the enormous costs of such inefficiencies.
But it has become increasingly clear that excessively strong or badly formulated intellectual
property
rights may actually impede innovation – and not just by increasing the price of research.
Society has always recognized that other values may trump intellectual
property.
Intellectual
property
is important, but the appropriate intellectual-property regime for a developing country is different from that for an advanced industrial country.
In fact, intellectual
property
should never have been included in a trade agreement in the first place, at least partly because its regulation is demonstrably beyond the competency of trade negotiators.
Besides, an international organization already exists to protect intellectual
property.
Hopefully, in WIPO’s reconsideration of intellectual
property
regimes, the voices of the developing world will be heard more clearly than it was in the WTO negotiations; hopefully, WIPO will succeed in outlining what a pro-developing intellectual
property
regime implies; and hopefully, WTO will listen: the aim of trade liberalization is to boost development, not hinder it.
Like all economic activity, it flourishes when
property
rights are respected, taxation is efficient and purposeful, letters of credit are honored, tariffs and other barriers are removed, and so forth.
But these presumed rights do not stem naturally from
property
rights and claims to scarce resources – the coins of the neoliberal realm.
The TPP does have its flaws, particularly in its overshoot on protection of intellectual
property
rights.
Ensuring that intellectual and other
property
rights are adequately protected for citizens and foreigners alike is essential, as is reducing corruption.
When the tradeoff is between taking lives and, say, reducing
property
theft, the case for milder punishments is far stronger.
The kind of large-scale innovation occurring in advanced economies requires institutions that ensure the rule of law, intellectual
property
rights, and a genuine meritocracy, with the most deserving firms, not those favored by the state, having access to the funding and opportunities they need to grow.
When a Republican politician compares US
property
taxes with the Holocaust, as one Senate candidate did in 2014, the mass murder of Jews is trivialized to the extent of becoming meaningless.
Because they settled after 1948 in “enemy territories,” such as Jordanian Sheikh Jarrah, they are barred by Israeli law from reclaiming lost
property.
The left’s concerns about labor and the environment were accompanied by fears about excessive benefits for corporations: protection of the intellectual
property
of pharmaceutical and other companies, and the mechanisms used to settle disputes between investors and states.
Perhaps the greatest uncertainty concerned the extent to which big US corporations would get what they wanted in the areas of investor-government dispute settlement and intellectual
property
protection.
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