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

[Patrick Mächler]

Thanks for forwarding this.
For now, I could only take a short glimp on it.
I have to remark that the "Wind Turbines" section sounded extremely
sarcastic to me, because the rise of General Electric to America’s
largest wind energy manufacturing firm was actually boosted

Sources

* European parliament report on ECHELON
page 102ff
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A5-2001-0264+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN

* Article published in "Die Zeit" (German weekly newsletter)
http://www.zeit.de/1999/40/199940.nsa_2_.xml
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2F1999%2F40%2F199940.nsa_2_.xml&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Amelia Andersdotter <teirdes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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