[pp.int.general] Copenhagen, our turn to dive into

[Richard Stallman]

    Patents are a problem, but probably not as much as trade secrets.

These are very different issues.  Patents are created by statute,
so it is easy to change the policy, given political will.

But trade secrets are not created by statute.  A company's management
does not necessarily even know about its trade secrets.

Since these issues are very different, it is better not to mix them up.

    Western held copyrights also make it significantly more difficult for
    third world academics accessing proper education.

That is true, but it is a totally different kind of issue:
it affects education rather than industrial production.