On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:35 AM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
The myth of big pharma spending billions on research, hence the need to protect their legitimate investments by hook is crook is... just a myth.
See Robin D. Gross, “One of the most common misunderstandings regarding intellectual property rights, particularly copyright, is that the actual creators are the main beneficiaries of the grant. In reality, it is the large companies that employ creators and then strip them of their copyright through contracts who actually benefit from the grant society intended as a reward for authors. This important misunderstanding is no accident. Misleading "romantic notions of authorship" are systematically spun by the companies who stand in the shoes of creators to justify the generous monopoly right rewarded to them”, http://www.imaginelaw.com/