A significant report, just released, by the U.K. Commission on Intellectual Property Rights that looks at the impact of copyright and patent protections on developing nations. The tenor of the report is that, because developing countries hold the bulk of copyrights and patents, and because of the costs involved in maintaining and enforcing copyrights and patents, a strict regime results in developing countries paying part of the costs, but gaining none of the benefits, of a tight copyright regime. In several areas it recommends that developing nations limit or void copyright and patent protection because they would be otherwise forced to do without the knowledge or technology. There is a lot of solid information and research here that one paragraph cannot adequately describe; if you are interested in the issue then this is required reading.
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