Feature articles on intellectual property: | 3/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) It is a defining characteristic of Western civilization that power-hungry men seek to declare ownership over all things they discover. For most of human history, such ownership efforts were focused on usable land. Owning land that could...
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 | 11/20/2007 - (NaturalNews) Craig Venter, the scientist who unsuccessfully attempted to map the human genome for profit, has applied for the first ever patent on a human-made life form. Venter has submitted his application at more than 100 national patent offices.
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 | 10/5/2007 - Did you know that if you have children you are an international criminal? You have violated intellectual property laws by infringing on the copyrights of companies that have been granted patents on the human genome. You have replicated that gene sequence...
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 | 6/15/2007 - In this article, I'm going to explain the real story behind the big international push to get Indonesia and other Asian countries to "share" their H5N1 influenza samples with the rest of the world. As you may know, countries like Australia, the United...
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 | 5/29/2007 - History tells us that imperialist nations quite predictably invade weaker nations on a regular basis... especially when those weaker nations happen to be standing on valuable natural resources like oil or uranium. Thanks to this desire for strategic...
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 | 5/3/2007 - There is a cabal of power-hungry corporations that are systematically destroying humanity's future. These companies have taken over the food supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops, engineered "terminator" genes that...
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 | 3/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) The health minister of Thailand, Mongkol na Songkhla, has announced that the country will override international drug patents if pharmaceutical companies do not significantly lower their prices to make medications affordable to the country's...
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 | 2/13/2007 - (NaturalNews) A legal challenge from drug maker Novartis to current Indian patent law could halt Indian companies from selling generic copies of drugs to combat AIDS and cancer to the third world.
When India joined the World Trade Organization in 1995,...
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 | 2/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) Thailand has authorized compulsory licenses to produce generic versions of two patented drugs, one being a HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drug, breaking the patents held by drug companies.
The decision comes at the protest of the World Health...
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 | 1/14/2007 - With so many portable video devices emerging on the market these days, there's a growing question about intellectual property and whether or not it's appropriate to rip video to formats that will play on these devices. One question is, for example, is...
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 | 1/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) Concerns about piracy have hampered consumers' ability to buy and burn to DVD digital versions of movies from the internet, but a new Hollywood-backed technology and licensing arrangement from Sonic Solutions Inc. could change that.
Sonic...
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 | 12/12/2006 - (NaturalNews) German pharmaceutical giant Merck announced last week that it would collaborate with a Chinese pharmaceutical company to develop new cancer drugs based on traditional Chinese herbs and botanical medicines.
Hong Kong-based Chi-Med -- a...
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 | 12/7/2006 - (NaturalNews) The simple process of assembling a McDonalds sandwich may become a trade secret if the fast-food giant is granted the European and U.S. patents it filed for in June.
Hoping to give its hot deli sandwiches a uniform look and taste across...
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 | 12/4/2006 - (NaturalNews) Thailand announced last week that because of rising prices of foreign-made HIV/AIDS drugs, it would issue a five-year license to manufacture an inexpensive generic version of Merck & Co.'s Efavirenz drug.
Though Merck -- which holds the...
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 | 11/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) When you copy CDs and DVDs that you purchased to your own portable electronic device, you are breaking the law if you are a British citizen. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for a "private right to copy" of owned...
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 | 4/26/2006 - Sometime in the future, science is going to deliver to us desktop food fabrication equipment. These machines, which I'll call "FoodFabs," will be able to manufacture food items at the touch of a button on your desktop or countertop. It might have the...
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 | 4/13/2006 - Pop quiz: What's the first thing you see when you watch a DVD? The answer, of course, is a threat to imprison you or fine you up to $250,000 if you dare copy that movie or display it for non-home use. Movie studios and the Motion Picture Association...
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 | 9/9/2005 - Piglets worldwide may have a new mother pig… Monsanto Company. In case you haven't heard, Monsanto invented the pig. Well, not all pigs, just the really profitable ones. Nature can keep all the regular pigs, but if this company gets its way, Monsanto...
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 | 8/11/2005 - Jose Avila has always been a FedEx fan. He uses Fedex for all his shipping needs because he considers the packaging to be a high-quality, sturdy product, and the shipping service to be superior to competitors. So, when financial hardship inspired Avila...
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 | 3/26/2005 - Truth Publishing can now reveal the details of an exhaustive investigation into what may be the largest Hoodia Gordonii supplement scam operating in North America: the Pure Hoodia, Inc. company. (This article has recently been updated with even more...
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| 8/6/2004 - Apple is taking more heat over its anti-competitive practices regarding its iPod copy protection technology. The French online music store Virgin Mega has now filed a legal complaint against Apple, saying that Apple is engaged in anti-competitive practices...
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| 7/13/2004 - Book publishers can't stand the fact that people can buy and sell used books online at places like Amazon.com. In fact, they're downright frustrated with it, because sales of old books are starting to cut into their new book sales. So they've started...
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