FEED: Intellectual Property

The Pope speaks out on the subject in a Papal encyclical. The gist seems to be that people come first, at least in health care.

On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property, especially in the field of health care. At the same time, in some poor countries, cultural models and social norms of behaviour persist which hinder the process of development. More...