[pp.int.general] Fwd: anti-IP policies would lead to green job losses

[Amelia Andersdotter]

I should have forwarded this a lot sooner presumably. It allegedly
arrived to a Green MEP the other week. feel free to write the Green
MEPs of your member state (or any member state if you're not from a
member state) and debunk the information:


"Here they come..."

  U.S. Chamber Report Projects 1 Million Green Job Losses if Efforts to
  Weaken IP Rights Prevail

  The U.S. Chamber’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC)
  highlighted the findings of Intellectual Property and Green Growth:
  Analysis and Implications for International Climate Negotiations, a
  recent report by Garten Rothkopf that details future green job losses
  if efforts to weaken intellectual property rights (IPR) prevail. The
  study finds that compulsory licensing and other anti-IP policies
  would lead to green job losses of 1 million by the year 2020, and
  increasing exponentially after that. This report comes in the midst
  of international climate change negotiations where some governments
  are lobbying for weakened IP rights.

  http://www.thetruecosts.org/

This is the report:
http://www.thetruecosts.org/images/reports/gartenrothkopf_ipr_greengrowth.pdf

The executive summary sums the essay up. If anyone's had the time to
go over the ICTSD reports yet they'd also know that it's not entirely
untruthful, while the effects are probably vastly over-rated.

In fact, they're also lying about decreased technology transfer due to
loss of IPR protection - in reality, as they say, IPR is not the
largest factor at play in this tech transf issue (whcih is also
supported by ICTSD) and according to ICTSD the largest factor keeping
developed world enterprises from investing in developing nations are
initial investment costs etc

Well, seeing it like this: the compulsory license issue and full
flexibility in patents is apparently "dangerous" enough for a big
lobby firm like this group to demonise the proposal as creating vast
job losses, so we've got to be on to something ;)

-- 
Amelia Andersdotter
Kommunikationansvarig UPF
Lissabon-MEP
+46 738436779